Low dose chest computed tomography, in identifying pulmonary complications in immunocompromised patients after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-18

  Maimon, Nimrod M ^a   Lipton, Jeffrey H ^a   Chan, Charles K N ^a   Paul, Narinder S ^a   Marras, Theodore K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Chest X ray; Low dose computed tomography; Pulmonary complications

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GANCICLOVIR;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENGRAFTMENT SYNDROME; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYCOSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 39449135391     PISSN: 1573398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339808783497864     Document Type: Review

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