Spinal tuberculosis in children

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 724-729

  Eisen, Sarah ^a   Honywood, Laura ^b   Shingadia, Delane ^b   Novelli, Vas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BCG VACCINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PROTIONAMIDE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VITAMIN D;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEFORMITY; DISCHARGING SINUS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GAIT DISORDER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LIMP; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHILIA; NIGHT SWEAT; NOSE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACK PAIN; BCG VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 84864659679     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2011-301571     Document Type: Article

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