Cause, treatment and outcome of patients with life-threatening haemoptysis

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 67-69

  Stebbings, A E L ^a   Lim, T K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bronchial angiography; Bronchial embolisation; Bronchiectasis; Mortality; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRONCHIECTASIS; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHIECTASIS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0033069688     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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