Feather duvet lung

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Inase, Naohiko ^a   Ohtani, Yoshio ^a   Endo, Junji ^a   Miyake, Shuji ^a   Yoshizawa, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BFL; Bird fancier's lung; Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Feather duvet lung; Pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BIRD BREEDER LUNG; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; FEATHER; FEATHER DUVET LUNG; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PIGEON; PROVOCATION TEST; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; BIRD FANCIER'S LUNG; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0038171173     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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