A Novel Reading Scheme for Assessing the Extent of Radiographic Abnormalities and Its Association with Disease Severity in Sputum Smear-Positive Tuberculosis: An Observational Study in Hyderabad/India

BACKGROUND: Existing reading schemes for chest X-ray (CXR) used to grade the extent of disease severity at diagnosis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) are often based on numerical scores that summate specific radiographic features. However, since PTB is known to exhibit a wide heterogene...

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Autores principales: Grozdanovic, Zarko, Berrocal Almanza, Luis C., Goyal, Surabhi, Hussain, Abid, Klassert, Tilman E., Driesch, Dominik, Tokaryeva, Viktoriya, Löschmann, Yvonne Yi-Na, Sumanlatha, Gadamm, Ahmed, Niyaz, Valluri, Vijayalakshmi, Schumann, Ralf R., Lala, Birgit, Slevogt, Hortense
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4575099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26381644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138070

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