Secondary infection of intracranial hydatid cyst with Clostridium ramosum

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1004-1007

  Turkoglu, Omer Faruk ^a,b   Solaroglu, Ihsan ^a   Tun, Kagan ^a   Beskonakli, Etem ^a   Taskin, Yamac ^a  

^a Education Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clostridium ramosum; Hydatid cyst; Infection; Magnetic resonance; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MEROPENEM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM RAMOSUM; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDATID CYST; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPERINFECTION; VOMITING;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN EDEMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PARASITIC INFECTIONS; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; SUPERINFECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27744481862     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-1061-9     Document Type: Article

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