Methyl-Prednisolone in Pulmonary Tuberculosis with Diabetes Mellitus
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Methyl-prednisolone in pulmonary tuberculosis with diabetes mellitus.
Both diabetes mellitus and pulmonary tuberculosis were regarded as-contraindications to cortico-steroid therapy when such treatment first became available. Steroids have now become standard adjuvant therapy to the usual anti-tuberculous drugs in most cases of fulminant pulmonary tuberculosis and the Tuberculosis Society of Scotland report (I957, 1958) confirmed the value of such combined treatm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1960
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.36.411.33