The value of routinely culturing for tuberculosis during bronchoscopies in an intermediate tuberculosis-burden country

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 969-972

  Kim, Myung Hoon ^a   Suh, Gee Young ^a   Chung, Man Pyo ^a   Kim, Hojoong ^a   Kwon, O Jung ^a   Lee, Jang Ho ^a   Lee, Nam Yong ^a   Koh, Won Jung ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopy; Diagnosis; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 38049123699     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2007.48.6.969     Document Type: Article

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