The role of fine needle aspiration in diagnosis of infectious disease

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 866-872

  Lal, Aseem ^a   Warren, John ^a   Bedrossian, Carlos W M ^a   Nayar, Ritu ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; ITRACONAZOLE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIOSIS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; RISK FACTOR; SINUSITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOMYCES; FUNGI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES;

EID: 0036830598     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/j9em-1768-2tyg-pu9b     Document Type: Article

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