Solitary pontine tuberculoma

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 738-742

  Sugimori, Hiroshi ^a   Saku, Yoshisuke ^a   Ibayashi, Setsuro ^b   Ogasawara, Tetsuzou ^c   Fujishima, Masatoshi ^b   Iida, Mitsuo ^b  

^a Saint Mary Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c St Mary Hospital

Author keywords

Antituberculous drug; Brainstem; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE DURATION; DYSARTHRIA; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PONS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA;

EID: 0036744632     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.738     Document Type: Article

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