Chest ACCP Education Calendar
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Sanders, J.
Right arrow Articles by Thompson, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Sanders, J.
Right arrow Articles by Thompson, J.

Chest, Vol 72, 193-196, Copyright © 1977 by American College of Chest Physicians

ARTICLES

Exfoliative cytology in the rapid diagnosis of pulmonary blastomycosis

JS Sanders, GA Sarosi, DJ Nollet and JI Thompson

Four patients with pulmonary blastomycosis are reported. Their bronchial washings, submitted for cytologic evaluation and stained by the standard Papanicolau technique, yielded the diagnosis, subsequently confirmed by cultural identification of the fungus. In three additional cases, retrospective evaluation of cytologic material also revealed the organism, even though the diagnostic significance was not appreciated originally. Since cytologic techniques are simple, readily available, and rapid, they can be helpful in differentiating pulmonary neoplasms from pulmonary blastomycosis, thus reducing the need for diagnostic thoracotomies.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 ChestHome page
M. A. Martynowicz and U. B. S. Prakash
Pulmonary Blastomycosis : An Appraisal of Diagnostic Techniques
Chest, March 1, 2002; 121(3): 768 - 773.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 NEJMHome page
K. C. Meyer, E. J. McManus, and D. G. Maki
Overwhelming Pulmonary Blastomycosis Associated with the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
N. Engl. J. Med., October 21, 1993; 329(17): 1231 - 1236.
[Abstract] [Full Text]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1977 by the American College of Chest Physicians.