Reliability of tuberculin skin test measurement

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 210-214

  Pouchot, Jacques ^a   Grasland, Anne ^a   Collet, Carole ^a   Coste, Joël ^b   Esdaile, John M ^c   Vinceneux, Philippe ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LOUIS MOURIER   (France)

^b Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 0031038804     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-3-199702010-00005     Document Type: Article

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