Transthoracic Needle Aspiration: A Useful Technique to Detect Causative Organisms of Pneumonia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 849-850

  Saito, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

anaerobe; community acquired pneumnonia; pneumothorax; Streptococcus milleri group

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NOTE; PNEUMOTHORAX; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION;

BACTERIA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; HUMANS; LUNG; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 0035461819     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.849     Document Type: Article

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