Steroid therapy in children with tuberculous meningitis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 532-534

  Shah, Ira ^a  

^a B J WADIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MENINGISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PTOSIS; STEROID THERAPY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VOMITING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 72149134609     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540902856552     Document Type: Article

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