The role of routine culture for tuberculosis during bronchoscopy examination of lung masses

Respiration

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 402-405

  Shitrit, David ^a   Dekel, Shlomi ^a   Shitrit, Ariella Bar Gil ^b   Kramer, Mordechai R ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acid fast bacilli; Bronchoscopy; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 23844474900     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086255     Document Type: Article

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