A high resolution computer tomography scoring system to predict culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in the emergency department

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Yeh, Jun Jun ^a,b,c,d   Neoh, Choo Aun ^d   Chen, Cheng Ren ^a   Chou, Christine Yi Ting ^e   Wu, Ming Ting ^f  

^a CHIA YI CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c MEIHO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d PINGTUNG CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84899618300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093847     Document Type: Article

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