Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia associated with Pneumocystis carinii infection and sirolimus therapy in a renal transplant patient

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-70

  Verma, N ^a,b   Soans, B ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia; High resolution computed tomography; Pneumocystis carinii; Renal transplant; Sirolimus

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOGENIC ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; SIROLIMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646009157     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: 14401673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2005.01529.x     Document Type: Article

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