Management and outcome of brain abscess in renal transplant recipients

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 894, 2000, Pages 207-211

  Arunkumar, M J ^a   Rajshekhar, Vedantam ^a   Chandy, Mathew J ^a   Thomas, Paulose P ^a   Jacob, Chacko Korula ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Computed tomography guided stereotaxy; Renal transplant recipients

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPIRATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CRANIOTOMY; DYSURIA; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; SEPTICEMIA;

ADULT; BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034108586     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.76.894.207     Document Type: Article

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