The missing piece

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1913-1918

  Robertson, Kathryn B ^a   Janssen, William J ^b   Saint, Sanjay ^c,d   Weinberger, Steven E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; PARAGONIMIASIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FOOD CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; PARAGONIMUS; PLEURA EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARAGONIMUS; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 33750500330     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps053177     Document Type: Article

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