An unusual case of esophageal tuberculosis in an adult

Respiration

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 88-90

  Alataş, Füsun ^a,b   Özdemir, Necla ^a   Işiksoy, Serap ^a   Metintaş, Muzaffer ^a   Erginel, Sinan ^a   Harmanci, Emel ^a   Mutlu, Sevda ^a  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Esophagus; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG HILUS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033028460     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029346     Document Type: Article

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