Hematogenous spinal infection in Central Greece

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Sakkas, Lazaros I ^a,b   Davas, Evangelos M ^a   Kapsalaki, Efie ^a   Boulbou, Maria ^a   Makaritsis, Konstantinos ^a   Alexiou, Ioannis ^a   Tsikrikas, Thomas ^a   Stathakis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b Technical University of Larisa   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brucella; Epidural abscess; Facet joint; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Spinal infection; Spondylodiscitis; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXYCYCLINE; ETANERCEPT; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; METHOTREXATE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; FEVER; GREECE; HEMATOGENOUS SPINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SPINE; SPINE DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMPTOM; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACK PAIN; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRUCELLOSIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; FEVER; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINE; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUBDURAL SPACE;

EID: 67651160573     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181a9897e     Document Type: Article

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