Clinical images: The crazy-paving pattern on computed tomography

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 182, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1545-

  Maimon, Nimrod ^a   Heimer, Dov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PROGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958040798     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.091422     Document Type: Note

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