To the editor: Short-course, high-dose corticosteroid treatment in six children with late ARDS

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 314-316

  Martinot, Alain ^a   Fourier, Catherine ^a   Cremer, Robin ^a   Hue, Valérie ^a   Deschildre, Antoine ^a   Leclerc, Francis ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE HEMISUCCINATE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 0030948172     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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