Emergency Imaging Assessment of Deep Neck Space Infections

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 432-442

  Maroldi, Roberto ^a   Farina, Davide ^a   Ravanelli, Marco ^a   Lombardi, Davide ^a   Nicolai, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID SPACE INFECTION; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEEP NECK SPACE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; LUDWIG ANGINA; LYMPHADENITIS; MASTICATOR SPACE INFECTION; MASTOIDITIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTITIS MEDIA; PARAPHARYNGEAL INFECTION; PARAVERTEBRAL SPACE INFECTION; PAROTID SPACE INFECTION; PHARYNGITIS; PREVERTEBRAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPHARYNGEAL SPACE INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIALOADENITIS; SINUSITIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBLINGUAL INFECTION; SUBMANDIBULAR SPACE INFECTION; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TONSILLITIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; NECK; PHARYNGITIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866047008     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: 15585034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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