Bilateral sequential lung transplantation for pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis

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Volumn 112, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1140-1144

  Edelman, Jeffrey D ^a   Bavaria, Joseph ^a   Kaiser, Larry R ^a   Litzky, Leslie A ^a   Palevsky, Harold I ^a   Kotloff, Robert M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; Pleural disease; Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COR PULMONALE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG MICROLITHIASIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLEURECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030798729     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.112.4.1140     Document Type: Article

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