Antibiotic therapy for nontuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 10 I, 2005, Pages 1746-1751

  Luong, Amber ^a,b   McClay, John E ^a   Jafri, Hasan S ^a   Brown, Orval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphadenitis; Nontuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFPROZIL; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MACROLIDE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BARTONELLA; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHILD; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; GRANULOMA; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL CERVICOFACIAL LYMPHADENITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; FACE; HUMANS; INFANT; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; NECK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 26944483981     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000168112.54252.92     Document Type: Article

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