Solitary pulmonary nodule in the liver transplant candidate: Importance of diagnosis and treatment

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 760-766

  Concejero, Allan M ^a   Yong, Chee Chien ^a   Chen, Chao Long ^a   Lu, Hung I ^a   Wang, Chih Chi ^a   Wang, Shih Ho ^a   Liu, Yueh Wei ^a   Yang, Chin Hsiang ^a   Cheng, Yu Fan ^a   Jawan, Bruno ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; FLUCONAZOLE; ISONIAZID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TAIWAN; THORACOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77953632285     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22066     Document Type: Article

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