Primary endobronchial actinomycosis simulating endobronchial tuberculosis in a patient with diabetes mellitus

Tuberkuloz ve Toraks

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 186-190

  Rad, Mohammad Hossein Rahimi ^a,b   Milani, Majid ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Actinomycosis; Diabetes mellitus; Endobronchial; Pulmonary; Sulfur granules; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGED; ANOREXIA; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 34447548605     PISSN: 04941373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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