Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis: Experience in diagnosis and treatment

Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-11

  Hong, Liang ^a   Wu, Jin Guo ^a   Ding, Ji Guang ^a   Wang, Xiao Yang ^a   Zheng, Ming Hua ^b   Fu, Rong Quan ^a   Li, Wen Bing ^a   Peng, Wen Xian ^a   He, Wen fei ^c   Sun, Qing Feng ^a  

^a THE THIRD AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ETIDRONIC ACID TC 99M; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; ISONIAZID; LEFLUNOMIDE; OFLOXACIN; PEPTIDE; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SULPERAZON; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MULTIFOCAL SKELETAL TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 73849151536     PISSN: 0399077X     EISSN: 17696690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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