Brain-stem listeriosis: A comparison of SPECT and MRI findings

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Sahin, Sevki ^a   Arisoy, Ayse S ^a   Topkaya, Aynur E ^a   Karsidag, Sibel ^a  

^a MALTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MILK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AMPICILLIN; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33845983634     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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