The nodular form of hepatic tuberculosis: A review with five additional new cases

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 835-839

  Huang, W T ^b   Wang, C C ^b   Chen, W J ^b   Cheng, Y F ^b   Eng, H L ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, HEPATIC;

EID: 0242491541     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.56.11.835     Document Type: Review

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