Vascular and Parameningeal Infections of the Head and Neck

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 577-590

  Laupland, Kevin B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ANEURYSM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; EROSION; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PARAMENINGEAL DISORDER; REVIEW; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

HEAD; HUMANS; NECK; PERIMENINGEAL INFECTIONS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 34249945204     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.03.011     Document Type: Review

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