Treatment for lymph node tuberculosis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7747, 2010, Pages 653-655

  Sellar, Rob S ^a   Corbett, E L ^b   D'Sa, Shirley ^a,c   Linch, David C ^a,d   Ardeshna, Kirit M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ETOPOSIDE; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PROCARBAZINE; RIFATER; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLOR BLINDNESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; NAUSEA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949720471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c63     Document Type: Short Survey

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