Role of HRCT in detection and characterization of pulmonary abnormalities in patients with febrile neutropenia

Lung India

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 124-130

  Kang, Mandeep ^a   Deoghuria, Debasis ^a   Varma, Subash ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a   Bhatia, Anmol ^a   Khandelwal, Niranjan ^a  

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

Author keywords

Febrile neutropenia; high resolution CT; imaging; pulmonary infections

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876925892     PISSN: 09702113     EISSN: 0974598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.110420     Document Type: Article

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