Multimodality Management of Extensive Tuberculous Bullous Disease of Lung With Bilateral Pneumothorax

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 304-305

  Chaudhry, Ikram ^a   Bojal, Shoukat ^a   Attia, Adel ^a   Nwasser, Aziz ^a  

^a KING FAHAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LUNG BULLA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953670322     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.077     Document Type: Article

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