Infection in the Intensive Care Unit: A Clinician's View of the Role of Imaging

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-10

  Strange, Charlie ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SEPSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845327512     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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