Five-year assessment of controlled trials of short-course chemotherapy regimens of 6, 9 or 18 months' duration for spinal tuberculosis in patients ambulatory from the start or undergoing radical surgery. Fourteenth report of the Medical Research Council Working Party on Tuberculosis of the Spine

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 73-81

  Darbyshire, J ^a  

^a MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; ISONIAZID PLUS RIFAMPICIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDIA; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHAMBUTOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ISONIAZID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; P-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 0032805266     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002640050311     Document Type: Article

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