Radiation Pneumonitis Successfully Treated with Inhaled Corticosteroids

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 521-524

  Magaña, Eric ^a   Crowell, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Pneumonitis; Radiation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUTICASONE; PREDNISONE; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG TUMOR; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANDROSTADIENES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS;

EID: 0042467548     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000054502.81803.A3     Document Type: Article

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