Successful treatment of pituitary abscess with oral administration of sparfloxacin

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1147-1151

  Uchida, Yujiro ^a   Tsuchimochi, Noriko ^a   Oku, Miwako ^a   Fujihara, Naoko ^a   Shimono, Nobuyuki ^a   Okada, Kaoru ^a   Harada, Mine ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Omuta National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intrasellar cystic mass; Magnetic resonance imaging; Meningo encephalitis; Sparfloxacin

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLYCEROL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; SPARFLOXACIN; SULTAMICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PITUITARY DISEASES;

EID: 48049098199     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0385     Document Type: Article

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