Prevalence of tuberculosis in small pulmonary nodules obtained by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 238-243

  Hosaka, Noriko ^a   Kameko, Mitsuaki ^a   Nishimura, Hideki ^a   Hosaka, Shigetoshi ^b  

^a Nagano Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b Maruko General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Granuloma with caseous necrosis; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGERHANS CELL; LUNG CANCER; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OGAWA MEDIUM; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, RESPIRATORY TRACT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 30544436834     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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