Post-tonsillitis septicaemia with meningitis and intravascular consumptive coagulopathy as complication of infectious mononucleosis with pansinusitis;POSTANGINA-SEPSIS LEMIERRE MIT MENINGITIS UND INTRAVASALER VERBRAUCHSKOAGULOPATHIE ALS KOMPLIKATION EINER INFEKTIOSEN MONONUKLEOSE MIT PANSINUSITIS

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 94-98

  Busch, N ^a,b   Mertens, P R ^a,b   Schonfelder T ^a,b   Nguyen, H ^a,b   Marschall, H U ^a,b   Kierdorf, H ^a,b   Haase, G ^a,b   Urhahn, R ^a,b   Sieberth, H G ^a,b   Matern, S ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN; SULBACTAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; SEPTICEMIA; SINUSITIS; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9044244137     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1042978     Document Type: Article

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