Prognostic Indicators in Patients with Intracranial Tuberculoma: A review of 102 Cases

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 83-87

  Wasay, M ^a   Moolani, M K ^a   Zaheer, J ^a   Kheleani, B A ^a   Smego, R A ^a   Sarwari, A R ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; GADOLINIUM; GLUCOSE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BCG VACCINATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; NEUTROPHILIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; SHUNTING; SIDE EFFECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ISONIAZID; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIFAMPIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 1942502402     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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