Pulmonary thin-section CT findings in acute Moraxella catarrhalis pulmonary infection

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 84, Issue 1008, 2011, Pages 1109-1114

  Okada, Fumito ^a   Ando, Y ^a   Nakayama, T ^a   Tanoue, S ^a   Ishii, R ^a   Ono, A ^a   Watanabe, M ^a   Takaki, H ^a   Maeda, T ^a   Mori, H ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTION; PLEURA EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82655186369     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/42762966     Document Type: Article

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