Deep Neck Infection

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 459-483

  Vieira, Francisco ^a   Allen, Shawn M ^b   Stocks, Rose Mary S ^a   Thompson, Jerome W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CEFOXITIN; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEEP NECK INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; LUDWIG ANGINA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROTID GLAND; PHARYNX; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FASCIA; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; LUDWIG'S ANGINA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43049101523     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2008.01.002     Document Type: Review

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