Adult pulmonary Langerhans' cell histiocytosis

Thorax

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 405-416

  Tazi, Abdellatif ^a   Soler, Paul ^a   Hance, Allan J ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOPOSIDE; GALLIUM 67; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GRANULOMA; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LANGERHANS CELL; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOSCOPY; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 0034107652     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.55.5.405     Document Type: Article

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