A 56-year-old man with rapidly worsening dyspnea

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 26, 2002, Pages 2149-2157

  Gong, M N ^a   Mark, E J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 0037180824     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc020028     Document Type: Article

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