Airway and parenchymal manifestations of pulmonary aspergillosis

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1113-1123

  Tunnicliffe, Georgia ^a   Schomberg, Lucy ^b   Walsh, Simon ^a   Tinwell, Brendan ^a   Harrison, Tom ^a   Chua, Felix ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Manifestations; Parenchymal disease; Radiographic appearances

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GAMMA1B INTERFERON; ITRACONAZOLE; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; VORICONAZOLE;

ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPERGILLOMA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CHRONIC NECROTISING PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FEVER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; WHEEZING;

EID: 84880770565     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2013.03.016     Document Type: Review

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