Intracerebral tuberculomas in a pregnant Somalian woman;Intracerebrale tuberculomen bij een zwangere Somalische

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 143, Issue 49, 1999, Pages 2475-2478

  Feenstra, B ^b   Termeer, A ^b   Verhagen, W I M ^a   Van Dijk Azn, R ^b   Dofferhoff, A S M ^b  

^a CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TUBERCULOMA;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CESAREAN SECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SOMALIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 0033524108     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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