Giant cell interstitial pneumonia in a 60-year-old female without hard metal exposure

Respiration

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 833-835

  Menon, Balakrishnan ^a,b   Sharma, Amit ^b   Kripalani, Jai ^b   Jain, Sudhir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c Max Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Giant cell interstitial pneumonia; Hard metal exposure; Pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GIANT CELL INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG FIBROSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OFFICE WORKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALLOYS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COBALT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 33751260167     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091610     Document Type: Article

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