A case of Mycobacterium avium pulmonary disease accompanied with pleural effusion

Kekkaku

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 725-728

  Kobayashi, Kanako ^a   Yano, Shuichi ^a   Kato, Kazuhiro ^a   Saito, Shinji ^a   Tokushima, Takeshi ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b National Sanatorium Matsue Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium avium pulmonary disease; Pleuritis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0036857215     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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