Idiopathic Diffuse Hyperplasia of Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cells and Airways Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 327, Issue 18, 1992, Pages 1285-1288

  Aguayo, Samuel M ^a   Miller, York E ^b   Waldron, James A ^c   Bogin, Robert M ^d   Sunday, Mary E ^e   Staton, Gerald W ^f   Beam, William R ^d   King, Talmadge E ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL VOLUME; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHI; CARCINOID TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026646069     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199210293271806     Document Type: Article

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