A case of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex disease, showing hypersensitivity pneumonitis-like diffuse shadow

Kekkaku

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-23

  Ohashi, Rina ^a,b   Akagawa, Shinobu ^a   Kurashima, Atsuyuki ^a   Tsuchiya, Kayoko ^a   Miyamoto, Maki ^a   Masuda, Kimihiko ^a   Tamura, Atsuhisa ^a   Nagai, Hideaki ^a   Nagayama, Naohiro ^a   Kawabe, Yoshiko ^a   Machida, Kazuko ^a   Yotsumoto, Hideki ^a   Hebisawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hot Tub Lung; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Pulmonary mycobacterium avium complex disease

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; KANAMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; SAUNA; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; CLARITHROMYCIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; KANAMYCIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PREDNISOLONE; STEAM BATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 32844461045     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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