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ArticleAnnals of thoracic medicine

A novel diagnostic approach for

Farnaz Houshmand, Fatima Zahra Aly, Mark Rollin Bowling

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Article in Annals of thoracic medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Farnaz HoushmandBerkeley Medical Center, West Virginia University, Martinsburg, WV, USA.
Fatima Zahra AlyDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Mark Rollin BowlingDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cavitary lung lesions are common in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infections. Both atypical infections and thoracic malignancies can manifest as a cavitary pulmonary lesion. Standard bronchoscopy is commonly used to evaluate these abnormalities but is limited in its ability to fully assess for cancer and infection. Bronchoalveolar lavage samples are likely to aid in the diagnosis of infection but are less useful in the evaluation of malignancy. In addition, many of these pulmonary lesions are located in the periphery of the lung and are not accessible for tissue sampling by standard bronchoscopy. We present a unique presentation of

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Bronchoscopycavitary lung lesionfine-needle aspirationimmunocompromisedPneumocystis jirovecii

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PMID31620213
PMCPMC6784444

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