Lipoid pneumonia due to Mexican folk remedies: Cultural barriers to diagnosis

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1043-1048

  Hoffman, Lucas R ^a,c   Yen, Elizabeth H ^a,b   Kanne, Jeffrey P ^a   Effmann, Eric L ^a   Gibson, Ronald L ^a   Van Niel, Cornelius W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Sea Mar Community Health Centers   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; COLIC; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEXICO; NOSE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SAUDI ARABIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

BRONCHOSCOPY; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PLANT OILS; PNEUMONIA, LIPID; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27744435373     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 10724710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.159.11.1043     Document Type: Article

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