Flock worker's lung: Broadening the spectrum of clinicopathology, narrowing the spectrum of suspected etiologies

Chest

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 251-259

  Kern, David G ^a   Kuhn III, Charles ^b,f   Wesley Ely, E ^c   Pransky, Glenn S ^d   Mello, Curtis J ^a   Fraire, Armando E ^d   Müller, Joachim ^e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e EFT Consultants   (Germany)

^f MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Interstitial lung disease; Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia; Nylon; Occupational lung disease

Indexed keywords

NYLON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FLOCK WORKER LUNG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INHALATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEXTILE WORKER; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

EID: 0033979791     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.117.1.251     Document Type: Article

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