Pulmonary aspergillosis: An alternative diagnosis to lung cancer after positive [18F]FDG positron emission tomography

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Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 638-640

  Baxter, Caroline G ^a,b   Bishop, Paul ^a   Low, Su Enn ^c   Baiden Amissah, Kweku ^c   Denning, David W ^a,b  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL OLDHAM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; ITRACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRANULATION TISSUE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN LYMPH NODE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHEEZING;

EID: 79959305284     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.155515     Document Type: Article

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