Chronic Pneumocystis jiroveci presenting as asymptomatic granulomatous pulmonary nodules in lymphoma

Journal of Infection

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 484-486

  Kumar, Neelam ^a   Bazari, Farid ^b   Rhodes, Anita ^b   Chua, Felix ^a   Tinwell, Brendan ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Granuloma; Lymphoma; Multiple pulmonary nodules; Pneumocystis

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL; FEVER; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALAISE; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PREDNISOLONE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 79958814913     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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