Central nervous system tuberculosis

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 795-814

  Gupta, Rakesh K ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

CNS tuberculosis; TB meningitis; TB spondylitis; Tuberculoma

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARACHNOIDITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUBERCULOSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYELITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL; TUBERCULOSIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 82455166814     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: 15579867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2011.07.004     Document Type: Review

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