Learning from our errors

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 335, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1049-1053

  Brown, Jeremy ^a   Worthington, Michael G ^b   Lathi, Ellen S ^b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MANNITOL; PHENYTOIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN RADIATION; CASE REPORT; CLONAL ANERGY; DYSPHASIA; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SLURRED SPEECH; TUBERCULOMA; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER; TUBERCULOSIS;

BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDERS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030567923     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199610033351409     Document Type: Article

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