Pictorial essay: Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 242-252

  Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Khan, Ajmal ^a   Garg, Mandeep ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; aspergillus; chest radiograph; computed tomography; High resolution CT scan

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOMA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASTHMA; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; STAGING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84855238657     PISSN: 09713026     EISSN: 19983808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.90680     Document Type: Article

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