Role of imaging in predicting salvageability of kidneys in urinary tract tuberculosis

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 587-590

  Viswaroop, Bobby ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh ^a   Nath, Vishwambhar ^b   Kekre, Nitin S ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Mafruq Hospital   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DETERIORATION; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT TUBERCULOSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; KIDNEY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; TUBERCULOSIS, UROGENITAL;

EID: 34247154337     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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