Parietal pleura and extrapleural space in chronic tuberculous empyema: CT-Pathologic correlation

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-15

  Kim, Hyae Young ^a,b   Song, Koun Sik ^a   Lee, Ho Jung ^a   Lee, Jin Seong ^a   Lim, Tae Hwan ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Empyema; Pleura; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

CHEST CT SCANS; COLLAGENOUS TISSUES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; INFLAMMATORY CELLS; PLEURA; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE ATTENUATION; TUBERCULOSIS; VESSEL CELLS;

PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFLAMMATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; NECROSIS; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035145272     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200101000-00002     Document Type: Article

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