Brucellosis presenting as piriformis myositis: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kraniotis, Pantelis ^a   Marangos, Markos ^a   Lekkou, Alexandra ^a   Romanos, Odysseas ^a   Solomou, Ekaterini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATINE KINASE; DOXYCYCLINE; GADOLINIUM; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL ACTIVITY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; ISCHIALGIA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOBLAST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY;

EID: 79953092778     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-125     Document Type: Article

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