Successful treatment of fungus ball in a patient with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: Continuous percutaneous instillation of antifungal agents into the cavity

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 736-741

  Tsushima, Kenji ^a,b   Fujimoto, Keisaku ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Sekiguchi, Morie ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGANO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

amphotericin B; aspergilloma; fluconazole

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BECLOMETASONE; FLUCONAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0029857778     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.736     Document Type: Article

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