A rare cause of fever and PET-positive nodules in the lungs

Clinical Respiratory Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-120

  Rossi, Giulio ^a   Marchioni, Alessandro ^b   Guicciardi, Novella ^b   Bertolini, Federica ^a   Valli, Riccardo ^c   Cavazza, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Civic Hospital   (Italy)

^c S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALAISE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68849100039     PISSN: 17526981     EISSN: 1752699X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2008.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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