Tuberculous meningitis: A review of 27 years;Meningitis tuberculosa: Revisión de 27 años

Anales de Pediatria

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 215-220

  Jordan Jimenez A ^a   Tagarro Garcia A ^a   Baquero Artigao, F ^a   Del Castillo Martin F ^a   Borque Andres C ^a   Romero, Ma P ^a   Garcia Miguel Ma J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Children; Tuberculosis; Tuberculous meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BCG VACCINE; CORTICOSTEROID;

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BCG VACCINATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMIGRATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REVIEW; SPAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 16444385845     PISSN: 16954033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13071835     Document Type: Article

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