Head and neck infection and inflammation

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 165-182

  Rana, Rich S ^a   Moonis, Gul ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Head and neck; Infection; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTERY DISEASE; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEEP NECK INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIGLOTTITIS; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FUNGAL SINUSITIS; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HEAD AND NECK INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFLAMMATION; LARYNGOPYOCELE; LARYNX DISORDER; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; LUDWIG ANGINA; MASTOIDITIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT INFECTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PHLEGMON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIALOADENITIS; SUPERFICIAL NECK INFECTION; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TOOTH INFECTION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EAR DISEASES; FASCIA; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LUDWIG'S ANGINA; MASTOIDITIS; MOUTH DISEASES; NECK; ORBITAL DISEASES; OTITIS EXTERNA; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649432801     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.07.013     Document Type: Review

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