Rate of resolution of histologically verified intracranial tuberculomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 873-879

  Poonnoose, Santosh Isaac ^a   Rajshekhar, Vedantam ^a   Hall, Walter A ^b   Friedman, Allan H ^b   Grossman, Robert G ^b   El Khamlichi, Abdeslam ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antituberculous therapy; Computed tomography; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0141640804     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000083553.25421.6F     Document Type: Article

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