CT findings in immunocompromised patients with pulmonary infections

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-82

  Demirkazik, Figen Başaran ^a   Akin, Aylin ^b   Uzun, Ömrün ^a   Akpinar, Meltem Gülsün ^a   Ariyürek, Macit Orhan ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BAYINDIR HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Immunocompromised patient; Pneumonia; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48949117570     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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