Chest low-dose computed tomography in neutropenic acute myeloid leukaemia patients

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 600-605

  Patsios, Demetris ^a   Maimon, Nimrod ^b   Chung, TaeBong ^a   Roberts, Heidi ^a   Disperati, Patricia ^c   Minden, Mark ^c   Paul, Narinder ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649191504     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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