Advances in Imaging Chest Tuberculosis: Blurring of Differences Between Children and Adults

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 717-744

  Andronikou, Savvas ^a,b   Vanhoenacker, Filip M ^c,d   De Backer, Adelard I ^e  

^a Diagnostic Imaging Working Group   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c AZ Sint Maarten   (Belgium)

^d ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e Algemeen Ziekenhuis Sint Lucas Gent   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chest; Children and adults; Imaging; Radiological classification

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; BARIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ISONIAZID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINITIS; MICROSCOPY; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NERVE PARALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 71849101322     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2009.08.022     Document Type: Review

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