Difficulties in the diagnosis of rare immunological diseases manifesting with cystic lung disease and spontaneous pneumothorax: Case reports

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-25

  Krawczyk, Paweł ^a   Czekajska Chehab, Elzbieta ^a   Kieszko, Robert ^a   Siwiec, Jan ^a   Wȩgrzyn Szkutnik, Irena ^a   Gryglicka, Beata ^a   Milanowski, Janusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LANGERHANS CELL; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMATOSIS; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PARENCHYMA; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMATOSIS; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3042716074     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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