Tuberculous meningitis in infancy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 262-266

  Tung, Yu Ren ^a   Lai, Ming Chi ^b   Lui, Chun Chung ^a   Tsai, Kun Lin ^a   Huang, Li Tung ^a   Chang, Ying Chao ^a   Huang, Song Chei ^a   Yang, San Nan ^a   Hung, Pi Lien ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHI MEI FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPONATREMIA; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 0036809126     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(02)00431-9     Document Type: Article

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