Chronic infections of the spine: Surgical indications and treatments

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 444, Issue , 2006, Pages 100-106

  Swanson, Andrew N ^a   Pappou, Ioannis P ^a   Cammisa, Frank P ^a   Girardi, Federico P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE GRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ABSCESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; GRANULOMA; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUPPURATION; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 33646011288     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000203447.44146.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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