Evaluation of the Patient with Chronic Cough

American Family Physician

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2159-2166+2169

  Holmes, Robert L ^a,b   Fadden, Clare T ^a,c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Choate Mental Health Center   (United States)

^c Carbondale Fam Pract Residency P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; IRRITANT AGENT; METHACHOLINE;

ANAMNESIS; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ASTHMA; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS FOREIGN BODY; CARCINOMATOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOMA; NOSE DISEASE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTNASAL DRIP SYNDROME; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 2342551982     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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