Methacholine challenge testing: Defining its diagnostic role

Journal of Respiratory Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 153-162

  Chevalier, B H ^a   Schwartzstein, R M ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROVOCATION TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPIROMETRY; WHEEZING;

EID: 0035076084     PISSN: 0194259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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