Obstructive airways disease in patients with significant post-tuberculous lung scarring

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1155-1157

  Hassan, Imad S ^a   Al Jahdali, Hamdan H ^a  

^a KING FAHAD NATIONAL GUARD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE EDEMA; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE; PLEURA THICKENING; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCAR FORMATION; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHEEZING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CICATRIX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAUDI ARABIA; SPIROMETRY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 24044492854     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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