Case report: A case of wood-smoke-related pulmonary disease

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 759-762

  Diaz, Janet V ^a,c   Koff, Jonathan ^a   Gotway, Michael B ^b   Nishimura, Stephen ^b   Balmes, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass combustion; Domestically acquired particulate lung disease; Hut lung; Indoor air pollution; Wood smoke

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CHARCOAL; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBUSTION; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUT LUNG; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG EXAMINATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MALE; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; WHEEZING;

EID: 33646356702     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8489     Document Type: Article

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