Escherichia coli positive infratentorial subdural empyema secondary to mastoiditis and underlying cholesteatoma

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mirza, Omar ^a   Varadarajan, Vinay ^b   Youshani, Amir Saam ^b   Willatt, David J ^b  

^a Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHOLESTEATOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALAISE; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; MASTOIDITIS; MYRINGOTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTALGIA; OTORRHEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; THROMBOSIS; TYMPANOPLASTY; VENTRICULOSTOMY CATHETER;

EID: 84899674185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-204498     Document Type: Article

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