Difficult asthma or Churg-Strauss syndrome?: Steroids may be masking undiagnosed cases of Churg-Strauss syndrome

BMJ

Volumn 318, Issue 7182, 1999, Pages 475-476

  D'cruz, David P ^a   Barnes, Neil C ^a   Lockwood, C Martin ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LEUKOTRIENE ANTAGONISTS; STEROIDS;

EID: 0033585886     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7182.475     Document Type: Editorial

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