Pulmonary high-resolution computed tomography versus gallium scintigraphy: Diagnostic utility in the diagnosis of patients with AIDS who have chest symptoms and normal or equivocal chest radiographs

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 52-57

  Kirshenbaum, Kevin J ^a   Burke, Robert ^a   Fanapour, Fred ^a   Lapat, Kenneth ^b   Overbeeke, Cornell ^a   Blatt, David ^a   Sukerkar, Arun ^a   Cavallino, Robert P ^a  

^a ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

AIDS; Gallium scintigraphy; High resolution computed tomography; Pulmonary disease

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031985262     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005382-199801000-00013     Document Type: Article

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