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Tuberculous Meningitis
This is a brief review of the cases of tuberculous meningitis treated at Ham Green Hospital with streptomycin. Since 1948, seventy-seven cases have been admitted and of these thirty-five (45 per cent) are still living. For the purpose of this review seventeen cases are excluded?eight because they have been admitted too recently and nine, the earliest cases, either because they received quite in...
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متن کاملTreatment of tuberculous meningitis.
When isoniazid is used for the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis the need for intrathecal therapy is controversial. A Scottish Joint Committee (1957) concluded from a comparative trial, including both adults and children, that intrathecal streptomycin is not now an essential part of the treatment. But, in fact, all the patients reported did receive intrathecal streptomycin for at least one...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.52.761