Successful treatment with pneumonectomy for pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus infection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 459-463

  Sugino, Keishi ^a   Kobayashi, Minaho ^a   Iwata, Motohide ^a   Gocho, Kyoko ^a   Kaburaki, Kyohei ^a   Muramatsu, Yoko ^a   Ishida, Fumiaki ^a   Miyazaki, Taito ^a   Sato, Daisuke ^a   Sakaguchi, Shinji ^a   Sano, Go ^a   Kusano, Emiko ^a   Isobe, Kazutoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Susumu ^a   Takai, Yujiro ^a   Shibuya, Kazutoshi ^a   Takagi, Keigo ^a   Homma, Sakae ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung disease; Mycobacterium abscessus; Nontuberculous mycobacteria; Pneumonectomy

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; FROPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; SULPERAZON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RELAPSE; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PNEUMONECTOMY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 67650086599     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1763     Document Type: Article

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