Intractable desquamative interstitial pneumonia in a tattooed man

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1055-1058

  Arai, Toru ^a   Inoue, Yoshikazu ^a   Hayashi, Seiji ^a   Akira, Masanori ^a   Yamamoto, Satoru ^a   Travis, William D ^b   Sakatani, Mitsunori ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KINKI CHUO CHEST MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Desquamative interstitial pneumonia; Foreign body; Respiratory failure; Tattoo

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; FATALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; RELAPSE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SMOKING CESSATION; TATTOO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; COLORING AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TATTOOING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750322398     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1727     Document Type: Article

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