Sterile recurrent spinal epidural abscess in a patient with Crohn's disease: A case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-184

  Gelfenbeyn, Mikhail ^a   Goodkin, Robert ^a   Kliot, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case report; Crohn's disease; Spinal epidural abscess

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; CEFTRIAXONE; LEVOFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE EROSION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS;

EID: 30944440441     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.05.028     Document Type: Article

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