Cervico-mediastinal lymphadenopathy as a paradoxical response to chemotherapy in pulmonary tuberculosis: A Case Report

Respiration

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-220

  Janmeja, A K ^a,b   Das, S K ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids, chemotherapy; Lymphatic; Paradoxical response; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; PREDNISOLONE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0037908942     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070073     Document Type: Article

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