Journal of computer assisted tomography
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J Comput Assist Tomogr · Jul 2003
Clinical TrialInfectious pulmonary nodules in immunocompromised patients: usefulness of computed tomography in predicting their etiology.
To review the high-resolution computed tomography (CT) findings in immunocompromised patients who had nodular opacities and a proven diagnosis to determine whether the various infectious pulmonary nodules have distinguishing features on CT. ⋯ Although some overlap exists, nodule size is helpful in the differential diagnosis of infectious causes of nodules in immunocompromised patients. Patients whose nodules are all less than 10 mm in diameter are most likely to have a viral infection.