Fusobacterium necrophorum mastoiditis in children - Emerging pathogen in an old disease

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 92-96

  Yarden Bilavsky, Havatzelet ^a,c   Raveh, Eyal ^a,c   Livni, Gilat ^a,c   Scheuerman, Oded ^a,c   Amir, Jacob ^a,c   Bilavsky, Efraim ^b,c  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fusobacterium necrophorum; Mastoiditis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE DESTRUCTION; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MASTOID; MASTOIDECTOMY; MASTOIDITIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROAURICULAR ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBPERIOSTEAL ABSCESS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ZYGOMATIC ABSCESS;

ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASTOID; MASTOIDITIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871505187     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: 18728464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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