Spectrum and management of deep neck space infections: An 8-year experience of 234 cases

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 709-714

  Ridder, Gerd Jürgen ^a   Technau Ihling, Katja ^a   Sander, Anna ^a   Boedeker, Carsten Christof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NECK CYST; NECK TUMOR; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PROGNOSIS; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27744522215     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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