High-resolution CT in renal transplant patients with suspected pulmonary infections

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 237-241

  Gulati, Madhu ^a   Kaur, R ^a   Jha, V ^a   Venkataramu, N K ^a   Gupta, D ^a   Suri, S ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

CT, high resolution; Kidney transplantation, lung diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CANDIDIASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CANDIDIASIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0034184119     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418500127345415     Document Type: Article

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