Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis as the first presentation of CNS tuberculosis: Report of a case with brief review;Disseminierte enzephalomyelitis bei tuberkulose: Fallbericht und literaturübersicht

GMS German Medical Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Masoodi, Ibrahim ^a   Farooq, Omar ^b   Ahmad, Iqbal ^b   Bhat, Mohammad Yaseen ^b   Ahmad, Nazir ^b   Wani, Hamid Ullah ^a   Dar, Javeed Ahmad ^c  

^a KING FAHAD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906658237     PISSN: 16123174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3205/000121     Document Type: Article

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