Miliary tuberculosis with no pulmonary involvement in myelodysplastic syndromes: A curable, yet rarely diagnosed, disease: Case report and review of the literature

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Neonakis, Ioannis K ^a   Alexandrakis, Michael G ^a   Gitti, Zoe ^a   Tsirakis, George ^a   Krambovitis, Elias ^b   Spandidos, Demetrios A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSPLENISM; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPLENECTOMY; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BONE MARROW; GENERAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; REVIEW;

BONE MARROW; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 41549124966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-7-8     Document Type: Article

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