Bacterial brain abscesses: prognostic value of an imaging severity index

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 564-572

  Demir, M K ^a   Hakan, T ^b   Kilicoglu, G ^b   Ceran, N ^b   Berkman, M Z ^b   Erdem, I ^b   Goktas P ^b  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HAYDARPASA NUMUNE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; CALCULATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247337328     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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