Clinical and operative study of otogenic intracranial complications
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Otogenic Intracranial Complications
Central nervous system (CNS) infections present significant mortality and morbidity, being life threatening diseases which can easily develop into challenges for physicians, despite the advances of modern medicine, in respect to development of antibiotics and modern surgical techniques [16]. Since the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the mortality has dropped significantly. We presen...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2320-6071
DOI: 10.5455/2320-6012.ijrms20150417