Hepatocyte Growth Factor and Digital Clubbing

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 44-46

  Hojo, Satoko ^a   Fujita, Jiro ^a   Yamadori, Ichiro ^b   Ezaki, Toru ^a   Watanabe, Seishiro ^a   Yamanouchi, Hideo ^a   Miyawaki, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaji, Yasufumi ^a   Nishioka, Mikio ^a   Takahara, Jiro ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE REPORT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 0030639980     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.44     Document Type: Article

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