Spine infection/inflammation

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-127

  Desanto, Jeffrey ^a   Ross, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Inflammation; MR imaging; Spine

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; GRANULOMATOSIS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYCOSIS; MYELITIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PARASITOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLIOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE INFECTION; SPINE INFLAMMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PARASITIC INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VIRAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE; SPONDYLITIS;

EID: 78649424786     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.07.018     Document Type: Review

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