Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Metals, Medals, and Standards in Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 909-910

  Morris, David G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; GOLD; METAL; SILVER;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; EXPOSURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BIOPSY; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0142107435     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.2307008     Document Type: Editorial

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