Clinical and radiologic factors associated with pulmonary nodule etiology in organ transplant recipients

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2759-2764

  Copp, D H ^a   Godwin, J D ^a   Kirby, K A ^b   Limaye, A P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Infection; Malignancy; Pulmonary nodule; SOT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYCOSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750012032     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01545.x     Document Type: Article

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