Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1673-1679

  Ong, Richard K C ^a   Doyle, Ramona L ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diethylcarbamazine; Differential diagnoses; Eosinophilia; Filarial parasites; Pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IVERMECTIN; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG FIBROSIS; MICROFILARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHEEZING;

EID: 0031749888     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.6.1673     Document Type: Article

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