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Procalcitonin –Vital Tool to Differentiate Septic Progression of Spondylodiscitis from Drug Hypersensitivity: A Case Report and Brief Review of Literature
INTRODUCTION: Drug hypersensitivity is an important differential diagnosis in patients of infective spondylodiscitis, who develop systemic symptoms such as fever, rash, and arthralgia while on treatment with antibiotics. As these symptoms may also be present in sepsis progression, differentiation be...
Autores principales: | Kapoor, Saurabh, Gadiya, Akshay D, Rasul, Fahid T, Bell, David |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Indian Orthopaedic Research Group
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7476689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953661 http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2020.v10.i02.1704 |
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