Case 15-2003: A 47-year-old man with waxing and waning pulmonary nodules five years after treatment for testicular seminoma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2019-2027

  Fleming, Carolyn M ^a,b   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^a,b   Mark, Eugene J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTACID AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; LANSOPRAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NAUSEA; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TESTIS TUMOR;

BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037545576     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030010     Document Type: Article

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