Magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of tuberculous spondylitis vs. pyogenic spondylitis

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 303-309

  Harada, Yuko ^a   Tokuda, Osamu ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

MR imaging; Pyogenic spondylitis; Tuberculous spondylitis

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM;

FACET JOINTS; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; IMAGING FEATURES; MAGNETIC (CE); MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR); MR IMAGING; THORACIC SPINE;

RESONANCE;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METICILLIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC SPONDYLITIS; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPONDYLITIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 46049094381     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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