Brain abscess complicating cervical traction.
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Brain abscess after insertion of skull traction.
A. H. Kaye, FRACS, Neurosurgery Senior Registrar M. Briggs, MSc, FRCS, Consultant Neurosurgeon Department of Neurological Surgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England. Requests for reprints should be sent to Mr A. H. Kaye. © 1982 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery 0301-620X/82/4086-0500 $2.00 Case 2. Computerised tomographic scan showing an intracerebral lesion in the left tem...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.297.6647.539