Pulmonary pseudallescherioma associated with systemic lupus erythematosus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1046-1049

  Sawada, Megumi ^a   Isogai, Susumu ^a   Miyake, Shuji ^a   Kubota, Tetsuo ^a   Yoshizawa, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Fungus ball; Pseudallescheria boydii

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCETOMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MADUROMYCOSIS; MALE; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032242227     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.1046     Document Type: Article

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