Diagnostic methodologies for invasive fungal infections in hematopoietic stem-cell transplant recipients

Seminars in Respiratory Infections

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 151-157

  Somboonwit, Charurut ^a   Greene, John N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG RESECTION; MYCOSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; THORACOSCOPE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MYCOSES; PNEUMONECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 0036087679     PISSN: 08820546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/srin.2002.33440     Document Type: Review

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