Adjunctive corticosteroid therapy for tuberculosis: A critical reappraisal of the literature

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 872-887

  Dooley, David P ^b   Carpenter, John L ^a   Rademacher, Steven ^a  

^a Brooke Army Medical Center ^*

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISONE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; ISONIAZID; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; STREPTOMYCIN; TRIAMCINOLONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPLEURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LARYNGITIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERICARDITIS; PERITONITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 0030861680     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515543     Document Type: Review

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