Central nervous system tuberculosis and paradoxical response

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 331-332

  Wasay, Mohammad ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL DRUG REACTION; PATIENT MONITORING; TUBERCULOMA;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 33646481502     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000209231.88651.07     Document Type: Editorial

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