Youssef Madney Said

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