Diagnosis of pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis by CT-guided core biopsy of lung: A report of three cases

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 833-835

  Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay ^a   Eckardt, Shea M ^a   Scalzetti, Ernest M ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; PROTEIN S 100; T6 ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CASE REPORT; CELL EXPANSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGERHANS CELL; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; SMOKING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS; LUNG DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956859444     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.135459     Document Type: Article

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