Impact of lung biopsy in diagnosis and management of pulmonary infiltrates in pediatric malignancies /
اهمية الحصول على عينة من الرئة فى تشخيص وعلاج التسللات الرئوية عند الأطفال المصابين بالاورام
Youssef Madney Said ; Supervised Lobna Shalaby , Hala Taha , Maged Elshafey
- Cairo : Youssef Madney Said , 2013
- 184P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - National Cancer Institute - Department of Pediatric Oncology
Pulmonary complications are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in bone marrow transplant recipients and neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies . Advances in immunosppressive therapy and an increase in number of BMTs have increased the predilection for pulmonary bacterial , fungal and viral infections . Such infiltrates are often indentified radiographically and empiric therapy is initiated based on their appearance
Lung biopsy Open kung biopsy ( OLB ) Pulmonary infiltrations