A 31-year-old female with fever and back pain

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 385-388

  Medappil, Noushif ^a   Adiga, Prashanth ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Infection; paraspinal muscles; pyomyositis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052498049     PISSN: 09742700     EISSN: 0974519X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2700.83869     Document Type: Article

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