Chest wall dissemination of nocardiosis after percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 797-799

  Shimamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Inaba, Yoshitaka ^a   Yamaura, Hidekazu ^a   Sato, Yozo ^a   Kamiya, Mika ^a   Miyazaki, Masaya ^a   Arai, Yasuaki ^b   Horio, Yoshitsugu ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest wall Dissemination; Complication; Interventional Radiology; Nocardiosis; Percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MINOCYCLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NOCARDIOSIS; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSTHORACIC NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ABSCESS; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36049039529     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-007-9002-0     Document Type: Article

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