Surgical treatment of pulmonary aspergillosis/mycosis in immunocompromised patients

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 771-776

  Danner, Bernhard C ^a   Didilis, Vassilios ^b   Dörge, Hilmar ^a   Mikroulis, Dimitrios ^b   Bougioukas, Georgios ^b   Schöndube, Friedrich A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Pulmonary aspergillosis; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53349166721     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.171579     Document Type: Article

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