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Submillisievert Computed Tomography of the Chest in Contact Investigation for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Close contacts with infectious tuberculosis (TB) are persons at high risk for developing active disease. We preliminarily introduced submillisievert chest computed tomography (CT) scan (effective dose, 0.19–0.25 millisievert) in a contact investigation of multi-drug resistant (MDR)-TB. Baseline CT s...

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Autores principales: Lee, Seung Chul, Yoon, Soon Ho, Goo, Jin Mo, Yim, Jae-Joon, Kim, Chang-Ki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28960029
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1779