Pulmonary blastomycosis masquerading as metastatic disease in the lung: A case report

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Vahid, Bobbak ^a   Wildemore, Bernadette ^a   Nguyen, Christopher ^a,b   Sistrun, Niki ^a,b   Marik, Paul E ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; LARYNX TUMOR; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 32544448213     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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