The value of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients whose pre-bronchoscopic sputum specimens were negative both for smear and PCR analyses

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Tamura, Atsuhisa ^a   Shimada, Masahiro ^a   Matsui, Yoshinori ^a   Kawashima, Masahiro ^a   Suzuki, Junko ^a   Ariga, Haruyuki ^a   Ohshima, Nobuharu ^a   Masuda, Kimihiko ^a   Matsui, Hirotoshi ^a   Nagai, Hideaki ^a   Nagayama, Naohiro ^a   Toyota, Emiko ^a   Akagawa, Shinobu ^a   Hebisawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Definitive diagnosis; Drug susceptibility; Fiberoptic bronchoscopy; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Radiographic findings; Rapid diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 75749139747     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.2686     Document Type: Article

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