A rare association of tuberculous longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) with brain tuberculoma

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Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jain, Rajendra Singh ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Tejwani, Shankar ^a  

^a SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Brain tuberculoma; Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM); Tuberculosis; Tuberculous myelitis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941129247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-1232-z     Document Type: Article

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