Significance of precipitins and asymptomatic lymphocytic alveolitis: A 20-yr follow-up

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 523-525

  Cormier, Yvon ^a   Letourneau L ^a   Racine, G ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dairy farmers; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Interstitial lung disease

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITIN;

AGING; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FARMER LUNG; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COUGH; DAIRYING; DYSPNEA; FARMER'S LUNG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECIPITINS; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; QUEBEC; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1842428872     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.04.00021104     Document Type: Article

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