Routine surgery in addition to chemotherapy for treating spinal tuberculosis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2006, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Jutte, Paul C ^a   van Loenhout Rooyackers, Joke H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GGD Regio Nijmegen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONY FUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; KYPHOSIS; P-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 33645524136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004532.pub2     Document Type: Review

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