PCR diagnosis on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues with acid-fast stain and culture negativity in chronic dialysis patients of cervico-mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1543-1546

  Tarng, Der Cherng ^a   Su, Wei Juin ^a   Huang, Tung Po ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chronic dialysis; Extrapulmonary tuberculosis; Lymphadenopathy; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; CEFAZOLIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; DIALYSIS; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE FIXATION; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CERVICOMEDIASTINAL TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY NECROTIZING GRANULOMA; IS6110 GENE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENITIS; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RAPID TEST; THICKNESS; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECK; PARAFFIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TISSUE FIXATION; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 0031777812     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.6.1543     Document Type: Article

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