Central nervous system tuberculosis

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 173-189

  Torres, Carlos ^a   Riascos, Roy ^b   Figueroa, Ramon ^c   Gupta, Rakesh K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d Fortis Memorial Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

CNS tuberculosis; MRI; TB meningitis; TB spondylitis; tuberculoma

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUBERCULOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYELITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPONDYLITIS; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS ABSCESS; TUBERCULOUS CEREBRITIS; TUBERCULOUS ENCEPHALOPATHY; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; BRAIN; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD;

BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELITIS; SPINAL CORD; SPONDYLITIS; TUBERCULOSIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84902276347     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: 15361004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RMR.0000000000000023     Document Type: Article

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