Polymicrobial lung infection in postrenal transplant recipient diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration cytology

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 294-296

  Duggal, Rajan ^a   Rajwanshi, Arvind ^a   Gupta, Nalini ^a   Lal, Anupam ^a   Singhal, Manphool ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Aspiration cytology; Cryptococcus; Lung; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COUGHING; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77949411165     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21198     Document Type: Article

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