Prospective study of fever and pneumonia after flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy in older people

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 827-830

  Kanemoto, Kouji ^b   Satoh, Hiroaki ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroichi ^b   Ishikawa, Shigemi ^b   Ohtsuka, Morio ^b   Sekizawa, Kiyohisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aged; Bronchoscopy; Complications; Elderly; Pneumonia; Postbronchoscopic fever

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FORCEPS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW UP; LUNG DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33744993879     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00705.x     Document Type: Article

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