Tuberculosis of the skull in a patient on maintenance haemodialysis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2019-2021

  Nergizoǧlu, Gökhan ^a,b   Duman, Neval ^a   Ertürk, Şehsuvar ^a   Keven, Kenan ^a   Ateş, Kenan ^a   Akar, Harun ^a   Bademci, Gülşah ^a   Berk, Çaǧlar ^a   Erekul, Selim ^a   Erbay, Bülent ^a   Karatan, Oktay ^a   Ertuǧ, A Ergün ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Haemodialysis; Skull; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS;

ADULT; BONE DISEASES; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032772893     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.8.2019     Document Type: Article

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