Non-tuberculous mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis in the immunocompetent child: Diagnostic and treatment approach

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 959-965

  Perdikogianni, Chryssoula ^a   Galanakis, Emmanouil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

child; diagnostic approach; immunocompetent; lymphadenitis; non tuberculous mycobacteria; treatment

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIFAMOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MACROLIDE; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; RIFAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXCISION; FATIGUE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYMPHADENITIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NON TUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL CERVICAL LYMPHADENITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

BIOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYMPH NODES; MACROLIDES; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 84903975526     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14787210.2014.920691     Document Type: Review

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