Influence of host immunosuppression on CT findings in invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 817-823

  Milito, Miguel A ^a,b   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a   Lewis, Russell E ^a   Liu, Ping ^a   Mawlawi, Osama R ^a   Truong, Mylene T ^a   Marom, Edith M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; CT; Immunosuppression; Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

ASPERGILLUS;

EID: 77955903993     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693780903514872     Document Type: Article

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