Diagnosing filamentous fungal infections in immunocompromised patients applying computed tomography-guided percutaneous lung biopsies: A 12-year experience
Infection Oct 01, 2017
Lass-Flörl C, et al. - In this work, the clinical utility of computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous lung biopsies in diagnosing Invasive fungal diseases (IFD) was assessed. CT-guided lung biopsies proved to have high diagnostic accuracy in terms of microscopic examination with low complication rates. Molecular-based and antigen tests applied on fungal hyphae-positive specimens showed comparable results.
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