A new diagnostic scoring for discrimination of tuberculous and bacterial meningitis on the basis of clinical and laboratory findings

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-263

  Ersoy, Yasemin ^a   Yetkin, Funda ^a   Bayraktar, Mehmet Refik ^a   Ersoy, Yuksel ^a   Yologlu, Saim ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; C reactive protein; Diagnostics; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BODY MASS; BRUCELLOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADULT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84859593156     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333808     Document Type: Article

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