Pulmonary cryptococcosis: CT findings in immunocompetent patients

Radiology

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 326-331

  Lindell, Rebecca M ^a   Hartman, Thomas E ^a   Nadrous, Hassan F ^a   Ryu, Jay H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; APPARATUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 20744455804     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2361040460     Document Type: Review

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