Sputum in asthma: Color versus cell counts

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 105, Issue 1 I, 2000, Pages 182-183

  Berlyne, Graham Samuel ^a   Efthimiadis, Ann ^a   Hussack, Patricia ^a   Groves, David ^b   Dolovich, Jerry ^a   Hargreave, Frederick Ernest ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COLOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0033968504     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6749(00)90195-7     Document Type: Article

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