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Comparative chest computed tomography findings of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung diseases and pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with acid fast bacilli smear-positive sputum
BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis and treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial lung diseases (NTM-LD) and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) are important clinical issues. The present study aimed to compare and identify the chest CT characteristics that help to distinguish NTM lung disease from PTB in patients...
Autores principales: | Yuan, Mei-Kang, Chang, Cheng-Yu, Tsai, Ping-Huang, Lee, Yuan-Ming, Huang, Jen-Wu, Chang, Shih-Chieh |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24755048 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-14-65 |
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