Alveolar damage in AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Chest

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1193-1199

  Benfield, Thomas L ^a   Prentø, Poul ^a   Junge, Jette ^a   Vestbo, Jørgen ^a   Lundgren, Jens D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AIDS; electron microscopy; histopathology; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 1; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

EID: 0030916475     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.5.1193     Document Type: Article

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