A high-resolution computed tomography-based scoring system to differentiate the most infectious active pulmonary tuberculosis from community-acquired pneumonia in elderly and non-elderly patients

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2372-2384

  Yeh, Jun Jun ^a,b,c,d   Chen, Solomon Chih Cheng ^a   Chen, Cheng Ren ^a   Yeh, Ting Chun ^a   Lin, Hsin Kai ^a   Hong, Jia Bin ^a   Wu, Bing Tsang ^a   Wu, Ming Ting ^e,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 KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

High resolution CT; Patient isolation; Sputum smear; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84930243373     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3279-6     Document Type: Article

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