'Does cerebral perfusion pressure influence outcome in children with tuberculous meningitis' [2]

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 358-360

  Nourse, P ^a,b   Schoeman, J F ^a,b   van der Merwe, P L ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ETHIONAMIDE; FUROSEMIDE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHILD; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 2342656344     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162204230584     Document Type: Letter

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