The demonstration of pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia with tumorlets in a patient with chronic cough and a history of multiple medical problems

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 439-441

  Carmichael, Mark G ^a   Zacher, Lisa L ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PULMONARY NEUROENDOCRINE CELL HYPERPLASIA; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

EID: 18544370719     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.5.439     Document Type: Article

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