Permanent visual loss despite appropriate therapy in tuberculous meningitis [8]

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 228-229

  Sunbul, Mustafa ^a   Leblebicioglu, Hakan ^a   Turan, Derya ^a   Esen, Saban ^a   Onder, Arif ^a   Ozaras, Resat ^b   Ozturk, Recep ^b  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHOROIDITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 33846799105     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31802ef8cd     Document Type: Letter

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