Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: Differential diagnosis by computerized tomography

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1083-1087

  Nei, Takahito ^a,b   Yamano, Yoshimitsu ^a,b   Sakai, Fumikazu ^c   Kudoh, Shoji ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Ebina General Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Computerized tomography (CT); Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOGRAPHY; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATHOGENESIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548459896     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6460     Document Type: Article

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