Mycobacterium avium pleuritis in a non-immunocompromised patient

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 1727-1731

  Kakugawa, Tomoyuki ^a   Mukae, Hiroshi ^b   Kajiki, Satoko ^a   Tanaka, Akitaka ^a   Yamayoshi, Takatomo ^a   Inoue, Masao ^a   Ohtani, Hiroshi ^c   Sakamoto, Noriho ^b   Izumikawa, Koichi ^b   Tasaki, Hiromi ^a   Ooe, Nobuharu ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Hakujyuji Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium avium; Nontuberculous mycobacterium; Pleural biopsy; Pleuritis

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN SULFATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LYMPHOID CELL; MALAISE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; THORACOSCOPY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PLEURISY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56349130091     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0973     Document Type: Article

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