Tuberculous Tenosynovitis in the Elbow Joint

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 162-165

  Asaka, Tomoya ^a,b   Takizawa, Yasuki ^b   Kariya, Tatsuya ^a   Nitta, Eishun ^b   Yasuda, Takao ^a   Fujita, Mikio ^a   Sawasaki, Shigeki ^a   Naiki, Yasuo ^a   Nakatani, Norio ^a   Doushita, Takashi ^a   Miura, Toshinori ^c   Ueda, Fumiaki ^c   Takamori, Masaharu ^b   Matsushima, Akihiro ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization Nanao Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Noto General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extra pulmonary tuberculosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Skeletal tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ABSCESS; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; ELBOW; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TENOSYNOVITIS; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS;

ABSCESS; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TENOSYNOVITIS; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 0030080190     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.162     Document Type: Article

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