Systemic sclerosis with bilateral hilar adenopathy

Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1007-1009

  Mountantonakis, S E ^a   Sakkas, L I ^a   Papadopoulos, D ^a   Stathakis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SCLERODERMA; SILICOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SILICON DIOXIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141504338     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keg245     Document Type: Letter

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