Tuberous sclerosis complex complicated by pulmonary multinodular shadows

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 275-278

  Kamiya, Hiroyuki ^a   Shinoda, Kinya ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Kudo, Koichiro ^a   Nomura, Tomokiyo ^a   Morita, Takatomo ^a   Fujii, Takeshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multifocal micronodular pneumocyte hyperplasia; Tuberous sclerosis complex; Video assisted thoracoscopic lung biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; LUNG; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EID: 33645677520     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1136     Document Type: Article

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