Meningitis and epidural abscess associated with fistulizing crohn's disease

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1461-1465

  Maggiore, Ronald ^a   Miller, Frank ^a   Stryker, Steven ^a   Buchman, Alan L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; epidural abscess; fistula; meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; INFLIXIMAB; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CECUM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INDICATION; DYSPNEA; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILEUM RESECTION; INTESTINE FISTULA; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM FISTULA; REMISSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STEROID THERAPY;

ADULT; CECUM; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROHN DISEASE; DRAINAGE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644320656     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000042247.83365.53     Document Type: Article

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