Tuberculosis spine: Therapeutically refractory disease

Indian Journal of Orthopaedics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-178

  Jain, Anil ^a   Dhammi, Ish ^a   Modi, Prashant ^a   Kumar, Jaswant ^a   Sreenivasan, Ravi ^a   Saini, Namita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

MRI; multi drug resistance; TB spine; therapeutically refractory disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859089951     PISSN: 00195413     EISSN: 19983727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.93685     Document Type: Article

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