Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease in immunocompetent patients: Radiography-CT correlation

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 75, Issue 892, 2002, Pages 340-344

  Wittram, Conrad ^a   Weisbrod, G L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHIECTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG CAVITY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA DISEASE; RADIOLOGIST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036555181     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.75.892.750340     Document Type: Article

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