Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

Respiration

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 521-525

  Kristan, Sabina Škrgat ^a   Kern, Izidor ^a   Mušič, Ema ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Immunocompromised; Pulmonary aspergillosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; ASPERGILLOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036442907     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066470     Document Type: Article

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