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Ventriculitis and Post Operative Spinal Infection

Authors :
Christos M. Tolias
Florence Rosie Avila Hogg
Anastasios Giamouriadis
Prajwal Ghimire
Source :
Neurosurgery ISBN: 9783319982335
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Springer International Publishing, 2018.

Abstract

M83, RH, previously healthy and independent, lives with wife, non smoker, no etoh, underwent elective lumbar laminectomy for lumbar canal stenosis expressed with neurogenic claudication, complicated by intraoperative dural tear and csf leak which was primarily repaired, re presented with persistent lumbar wound csf leak followed by pyrexia, confusion and double incontinence, rapidly deteriorated to GCS E2 V1 M3 and systemic sepsis

Details

ISBN :
978-3-319-98233-5
ISBNs :
9783319982335
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Neurosurgery ISBN: 9783319982335
Accession number :
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