Reversal of digital clubbing after lung transplantation in cystic fibrosis patients: A clue to the pathogenesis of clubbing

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 378-380

  Augarten, Arie ^a   Goldman, Ran ^b   Laufer, Joseph ^b   Szeinberg, Amir ^b   Efrati, Ori ^b   Barak, Asher ^b   Miller, Mervyn S ^b   Yahav, Yaacov ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clubbing; Cystic fibrosis; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBBING FINGERS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISTAL PHALANX; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036841319     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.10193     Document Type: Article

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