Pulmonary carcinosarcoma initially presenting as invasive aspergillosis: A case report of previously unreported combination

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Olobatoke, Ariyo O ^a   David, Doina ^b   Hafeez, Wasif ^c   Van, Thien ^b   Saleh, Husain A ^b  

^a SINAI GRACE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Henry Ford Health System Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PNEUMONIA; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOSARCOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMONIA; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649300022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-5-11     Document Type: Article

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