Do follow-up imaging examinations provide useful prognostic information in patients with spine infection?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 172-179

  Kowalski, Todd J ^a   Berbari, Elie F ^a   Huddleston, Paul M ^a   Steckelberg, James M ^a   Osmon, Douglas R ^a,b  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPINE DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; DISCITIS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLITIS;

EID: 33745714451     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505118     Document Type: Article

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