A case of post-partum borderline tuberculoid leprosy complicated by a median nerve abscess, peptic ulceration and rifampicin-induced haemolytic renal failure

Leprosy Review

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-187

  Dawe, S ^a   Lockwood, D N J ^b   Creamer, D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; LANSOPRAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC RENAL FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDIAN NERVE ABSCESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEPTIC ULCER; PUERPERAL DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

ABSCESS; ADULT; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIAN NERVE; PEPTIC ULCER; RIFAMPIN;

EID: 4043050870     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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