The "damp shadow" sign: Another clinical indicator of miliary tuberculosis

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-88

  Flores Franco, René Agustín ^a   Ríos Ortiz, Luis Armando ^a  

^a Regional General Hospital   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HUMAN; LETTER; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM SMEAR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BEDDING AND LINENS; BODY TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; SWEATING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 77950019673     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.06.013     Document Type: Letter

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