A Case of Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia: Evidence for Hypersensitivity-Like Pulmonary Reaction

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Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1618-1621

  Iwami, Takahiro ^a   Umemoto, Seiji ^a   Ikeda, Kenji ^b   Yamada, Hiroatsu ^c   Matsuzaki, Masunori ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Shimonoseki General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Mine City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Elderly; Natural resolution; Pulmonary eosinophilia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEVER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TRICHOSPORON CUTANEUM; WHEEZING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0030473478     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.110.6.1618     Document Type: Article

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