An elderly man with nonresolving cough, leukocytosis and a pulmonary mass

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 134-135

  Alanezi, Mohammad ^b   Pugsley, Stewart ^b   Higgins, David ^b   Smieja, Marek ^a   Lee, Christine H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; METASTASIS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PNEUMONIA; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES;

AGED; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0042198945     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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