Utility of lumbar puncture in the afebrile vs. febrile elderly patient with altered mental status: a pilot study
- 31 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 32 (1) , 15-18
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.05.032
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