Hypersensitivity pneumonia-nonspecific interstitial pneumonia/fibrosis histopathologic presentation: A study in diagnosis and long-term management

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-270

  Jacobs, Robert L ^a   Andrews, Charles P ^a  

^a Biogenics Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PRECIPITIN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INHALATION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037324522     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)62153-9     Document Type: Article

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