Causes and imaging patterns of tree-in-bud opacities

Chest

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1883-1892

  Miller Jr , Wallace T ^a   Panosian, Jill S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHRONICITY; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREE IN BUD OPACITY; VIRUS INFECTION;

CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KARTAGENER SYNDROME; LUNG; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84890291732     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-1270     Document Type: Article

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