Pearls and Oy-sters: Tuberculous meningitis: Not a diagnosis of exclusion

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Jongeling, Amy C ^a   Pisapia, David ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFTRIAXONE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN HERNIA; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ENDONEURIUM; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MOUTH TEMPERATURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECK PAIN; PARENCHYMA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873695870     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31827f0832     Document Type: Article

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