Clinicoradiologic evidence of pulmonary lymphatic spread in adult patients with tuberculosis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 38-43

  Ko, Jeong Min ^a   Park, Hyun Jin ^a   Kim, Chi Hong ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CT; Lymphatics; Micronodiiles; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERLOBULAR SEPTAL THICKENING; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR INVASION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928552448     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.12908     Document Type: Article

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