Acute schistosomiasis in nonimmune travelers: Chest CT findings in 10 patients

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1300-1303

  Nguyen, Lam Quynh ^a   Estrella, Jeannelyn ^a   Jett, Elizabeth A ^a   Grunvald, Eduardo L ^a   Nicholson, Laura ^a   Levin, David L ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest; CT; Infectious diseases; Lung diseases; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAVEL;

EID: 33745520081     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.0213     Document Type: Article

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