Anatomy of a diagnosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 987-992

  Collard, Harold R ^a   Gruber, Michael P ^a   Weinberger, Steven E ^b   Saint, Sanjay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; BRONCHUS FISTULA; DYSPNEA; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISONE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 0042360201     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps030546     Document Type: Article

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