An Unusual Case of Aspergillus Fibrosing Mediastinitis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1352-1354

  Wightman, Sean C ^a   Kim, Anthony W ^a   Proia, Laurie A ^a   Faber, L Penfield ^a   Gattuso, Paolo ^a   Warren, William H ^a   Liptay, Michael J ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VORICONAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSING MEDIASTINITIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70249114458     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.02.087     Document Type: Article

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