Electron microscopic findings in BAL of a fire-eater after petroleum aspiration

Chest

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 398-400

  Burkhardt, Olaf ^a   Merker, Hans Joachim ^b   Shakibaei, Mehdi ^b   Lode, Hartmut ^a,c  

^a Chest Hospital Heckeshorn   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Chest Hospital Heckeshorn   (Germany)

Author keywords

BAL; Hydrocarbon pneumonitis; Petroleum aspiration; Pulmonary mycosis; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038488742     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.1.398     Document Type: Article

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