Increasing Number and Volume of Cavitary Lesions on Chest Computed Tomography Are Associated With Prolonged Time to Culture Conversion in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Cavitary lesions (CLs) primarily identified by chest x-ray (CXR) have been associated with worse clinical outcomes among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Chest computed tomography (CT), which has better resolution and increased sensitivity to detect lung abnormalities, has bee...

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Pubblicato in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Autori principali: Hernandez-Romieu, Alfonso C, Little, Brent P, Bernheim, Adam, Schechter, Marcos C, Ray, Susan M, Bizune, Destani, Kempker, Russell
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press 2019
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590978/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31263730
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz232
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