Management strategies for peripheral tuberculous lymphadenopathy

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 266-269

  Al Hadrani, Ahmed M ^a,c   Aulaqi, Saleh M ^a   Al Salami, Saleh F ^a   Al Kabsi, Abdul Malik A ^b   Al Zabedi, Abdul Karim M ^a   Al Gamrah, Ali H ^a  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^b National Tuberculosis Institute   (Yemen)

^c NONE   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Histological diagnosis; Lymphadenopathy; Treatment; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; YEMEN;

EID: 0034158202     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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