Clinical characteristics of spinal cord injury caused by infection;Características clínicas de la lesión medular de causa infecciosa

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 205-208

  Morillo Leco, Germán ^a,b   Alcaraz Rousselet, M A ^a   Diaz Borrego P ^a   Saenz Ramirez L ^a   Artime, C ^a   Labarta Bertol, C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epidural abscess; Epidural empyema; Myelitis; Spinal abscess; Spinal cord injury; Spondylodiscitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COURSE EVALUATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; DISKITIS; HISTOLOGY; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISCITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33644791054     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.4104.2004602     Document Type: Article

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