Disseminated tuberculosis: A 10-year experience in a medical center

Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-46

  Wang, Jann Yuan ^a   Hsueh, Po Ren ^a   Wang, Shu Kuan ^a   Jan, I Shiow ^a   Lee, Li Na ^a   Liaw, Yuang Shuang ^a   Yang, Pan Chyr ^a   Luh, Kwen Tay ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SODIUM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INJURY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERAPY DELAY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33846258112     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e318030b605     Document Type: Article

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