Intracardiac left atrial tuberculoma in an eleven-month-old infant: Case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cantinotti, M ^a   De Gaudio, M ^b   de Martino, M ^b   Assanta, N ^a   Moschetti, R ^a   Veneruso, G ^b   Crocetti, M ^a   Murzi, B ^a   Chiappini, E ^b   Galli, L ^b  

^a Heart Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; INTRACARDIAC LEFT ATRIAL TUBERCULOMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOMA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; PATHOLOGY; THORAX; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; INFANT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84855179689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-359     Document Type: Article

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