Relationship between duration, fatality rate and severity of disease and serum epidermal growth factor in human acute lung injury

Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 255-259

  Vazin, Afsaneh ^a   Mojtahedzadeh, Mojtaba ^a   Najafi, Atabak ^a   Khalilzadeh, Azita ^a   Abdollahi, Mohammad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Epidermal growth factor

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INTERSTITIUM; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 16244405312     PISSN: 14750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14750708.2.2.255     Document Type: Article

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