Management of tuberculous pleuritis: Can we do better?

Respirology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 144-148

  Wong, Poon Chuen ^a  

^a GRANTHAM HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tests; Predictors and management; Residual pleural fibrosis; Tuberculous pleurisy

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOSE; ISONIAZID; LYSOZYME; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PH; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; PLEURECTOMY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; CYTOKINES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL;

EID: 18344385706     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2005.00689.x     Document Type: Review

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