Hyperthermia occurring with paradoxical development of cerebral tuberculomas

Respiration

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 381-383

  Alame T ^a   Keller, K ^b   Michel, O ^a   Sergysels, R ^a  

^a Clinique de Pncumologie   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antituberculosis agents; Brain tuberculoma; Hyperthermia; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOMA;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0029858127     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196581     Document Type: Article

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