Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary infection presenting as a solitary pulmonary nodule

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 169-171

  Kwon, Yong Soo ^a   Koh, Won Jung ^a   Kwon, O Jung ^a   Lee, Nam Yong ^a   Han, Joungho ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Kim, Byung Tae ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atypical mycobacteria; Mycobacterium abscessus; Pulmonary coin lesion

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; THORAX SURGERY; TUBERCULOMA;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 33644789836     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1398     Document Type: Article

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