Feasibility and outcome of CT-guided lung biopsy in patients with hematological diseases and suspected fungal pneumonia

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 748-752

  Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar ^a   Kumar, Suman ^a   Singh, Avinash Kumar ^a   Seth, Tulika ^a   Mishra, Pravas ^a   Mahapatra, Manoranjan ^a   Sharma, Sanjay ^a   Tyagi, Seema ^a   Xess, Immaculata ^a   Ray, Ruma ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Fungal pneumonia; Immunocompromised patients; Lung biopsy

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; VORICONAZOLE;

APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CHEST TUBE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKEMIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG MYCOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NECROTIZING PNEUMONITIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BIOPSY; FUNGI; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84885802747     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.2823     Document Type: Article

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