Nocardiosis as a differential diagnosis of a PET-positive pulmonary nodule;Nokardiose als differenzialdiagnose eines PET-positiven lungenherdes

Pneumologie

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 176-180

  Darwiche, Kaid ^a,d   Totzeck, B ^a   Gatermann, S ^b   Bollow, M ^c   Ewig, S ^a  

^a Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet am Evangelischen Krankenhaus Herne Betriebsstelle Eickel   (Germany)

^b Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie der Stadt Bochum   (Germany)

^c Augusta Kranken Anstalt   (Germany)

^d Evangelisches Krankenhaus Herne   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORACOTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34047094496     PISSN: 09348387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-954990     Document Type: Article

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