Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia masquerading as acute bronchial asthma

Respiration

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-58

  Jiva, Tajuddin M ^a,b   Israel, Robert H ^a,b   Poe, Robert H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Saint Marys Hospital   (United States)

^c Highland Hospital Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Eosinophilia; Filariasis; Tropics

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TROPICS; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ASTHMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA;

EID: 0030031023     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196517     Document Type: Article

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