Hypoxemia in young asthmatics with mild airway obstruction by methacholine challenge

Military Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 820-823

  Ferrante, Enzo ^a   Quatela, Michele ^a   Pistelli, Riccardo ^b   Fuso, Leonello ^b  

^a Army Military Hospital   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE;

EID: 0032697214     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/164.11.820     Document Type: Article

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