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Tuberculous meningitis in the elderly.

P E Dixon, C Hoey, A C Cayley.   

Abstract

Six cases of tuberculous meningitis, all occurring in patients over the age of 65, are described. All patients presented with an acute illness, primarily with a confusional state. Headache was a symptom in only two patients and the cases were not confined to ethnic minority groups. The mortality was 50%.

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Year:  1984        PMID: 6483700      PMCID: PMC2418014          DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.60.707.586

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Postgrad Med J        ISSN: 0032-5473            Impact factor:   2.401


  4 in total

1.  Meningitis in the elderly.

Authors:  J E Newton; P J Wilczynski
Journal:  Lancet       Date:  1979-07-21       Impact factor: 79.321

2.  Meningitis. Tuberculous meningitis.

Authors:  R S Kocen
Journal:  Br J Hosp Med       Date:  1977-11

3.  Tuberculous meningitis in an urban general hospital.

Authors:  E J Haas; T Madhavan; E L Quinn; F Cox; E Fisher; K Burch
Journal:  Arch Intern Med       Date:  1977-11

4.  Tuberculous meningitis.

Authors:  D H Kennedy; R J Fallon
Journal:  JAMA       Date:  1979-01-19       Impact factor: 56.272

  4 in total
  1 in total

1.  Tuberculous meningitis due to Mycobacterium bovis: a report of two cases.

Authors:  E G Wilkins; R J Griffiths; C Roberts; H T Green
Journal:  Postgrad Med J       Date:  1986-07       Impact factor: 2.401

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