Difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of spinal tuberculosis

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 656-657

  Leonard, Andrew J ^a   Killen, Jeremy W W ^a   Mansfield, John C ^a   John Gibson, G ^a   Hudson, Mark ^a   Jones, Nigelag ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BACK PAIN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STREPTOMYCIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 0032147630     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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