Non-caseating granulomas in patients after the diagnosis of cancer: Clinical characteristics and outcome

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-49

  Butt, S ^a   Alzebdeh, R ^a   Kable, T D ^a   Soubani, Ayman O ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Non caseating granulomas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEOPLASM; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC DISEASES;

EID: 79960473067     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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