Diskography: Infectious complications from a series of 12,634 cases

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1930-1932

  Pobiel, Ronald S ^a   Schellhas, K P ^a   Pollei, S R ^a   Johnson, B A ^a   Golden, M J ^a   Eklund, J A ^a  

^a Center For Diagnostic Imaging Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE; DISKITIS; DISKOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INJECTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISCITIS; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; IOHEXOL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MINNESOTA; MYELOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33749679762     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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