Pulmonary nocardiosis after lung transplantation: CT findings in 7 patients and review of the literature

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-148

  Oszoyoglu, Aliye A ^a   Kirsch, Jacobo ^b   Mohammed, Tan Lucien H ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Lung transplanatation; Nocardiosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249908937     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rti.0000213583.21849.5c     Document Type: Article

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