Residual Pulmonary Abnormalities in Adult Patients with Chronic Paracoccidioidomycosis: Prolonged Follow-Up after Itraconazole Therapy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 898-904

  Tobon A M ^a   Agudelo, C A ^a   Osorio, M L ^a   Alvarez, D L ^a   Arango, M ^a   Cano, L E ^a   Restrepo, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b Unidad de Biología Celular y Molecular   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG BULLA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PATIENT; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; STANDARD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 0142043959     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377538     Document Type: Article

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