Pulmonary fungal infection: Imaging findings in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 371-383

  Chong, Semin ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Yi, Chin A ^a   Chung, Myung Jin ^a   Kim, Tae Sung ^a   Han, Joungho ^b  

^a Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fungi; Lung diseases; Lung infection

Indexed keywords

BLASTOMYCOSIS; CHRONIC PULMONARY INFECTION; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; LUNG INFECTION;

BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

CORTICOSTEROID;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOMA; CANDIDIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEUTROPENIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE SECTION;

HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748059567     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.04.017     Document Type: Review

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