Glucocorticoids in central nervous system bacterial infection

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 796-801

  Coyle, P K ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SEIZURE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEXAMETHASONE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 0033022630     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.56.7.796     Document Type: Article

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