Miliary tuberculosis with hypercalcemia, and a false abdominal aortic aneurysm, but no pulmonary findings

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 1297-1302

  Uchiyama Tanaka, Yoko ^a   Mori, Yasukiyo ^b  

^a Center for Cerebrovascular Disease   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Hypercalcemia; Miliary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CORTICOSTEROID; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COLLAGEN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCALCEMIA; INFECTION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOIDOSIS; STEROID THERAPY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BONE MARROW; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 33845616837     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1740     Document Type: Article

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