Eosinophilic pleural effusions

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 254-260

  Kalomenidis, Ioannis ^a,b   Light, Richard W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Effusion; Eosinophilic; Eosinophilis; Fluid; Pleural

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EOSINOPHIL; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SPUTUM EXAMINATION;

EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 0038677053     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063198-200307000-00002     Document Type: Review

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