Pulmonary ossification: An unusual incidental finding of a transthoracic CT guided needle biopsy of a lung lesion

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 1021, 2010, Pages 682-683

  Fernández Fernández, Francisco José ^a   Durana Tonder, Cristina ^a   Bello Peón, María José ^a   Caínzos Romero, Tamara ^a  

^a Universidad de La Coruña   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; LEVOFLOXACIN;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; SYMPTOM; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LUNG; MALE; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149337079     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2010.105320     Document Type: Article

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