Pulmonary tuberculosis accompanied by a transient increase in serum carcinoembryonic antigen level with tuberculous empyema drainage

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 1795-1798

  Sekiya, Kiyoshi ^a,b   Sakai, Toshihiko ^a   Homma, Sakae ^b   Tojima, Hirokazu ^a  

^a TOKYO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoembryonic antigen; Empyema perforation; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Tuberculous empyema

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPYEMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, TUBERCULOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 36248945645     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0412     Document Type: Article

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