Characteristic lesions on CT scan and progressive dyspnea

Respiration

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 495-498

  Stucki, A ^a   Tamm, M ^a   Gugger, M ^b   Balliger, C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lung cysts; Lymphangioleiomyomatosis; Progressive dyspnea

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CYST; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHANGIOMYOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031754172     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029323     Document Type: Article

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