Ground-glass centrilobular nodules on multidetector CT scan: Incidental diagnosis in a patient with pneumonia

Chest

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 427-433

  Godoy, Myrna C B ^a   Nonaka, Daisuke ^a   Lowy, Joseph ^a   Ko, Jane P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLOTRIMAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; INSULIN; INSULIN GLARGINE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; TALC; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY TALCOSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

EID: 77955350031     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-1923     Document Type: Article

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