Tuberculous pleurisy: A study of 254 patients

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2017-2021

  Valdés, Luis ^a,b   Álvarez, David ^a   San José, Esther ^a   Penela, Pedro ^a   Valle, José Manuel ^a   García Pazos, José Manuel ^a   Suárez, Javier ^a   Pose, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CONXO   (Spain)

^b Urbanización Parque Montouto ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EXUDATE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURISY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL;

EID: 0032511750     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.18.2017     Document Type: Article

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