Who's (still) afraid of talc?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 619-621

  Noppen, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLEROSING AGENT; TALC;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEATH; DRUG COST; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED CANCER; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INJURY; MESOTHELIOMA; PARTICLE SIZE; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SIDE EFFECT; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIBRATION; CHILD; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PLEURODESIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TALC;

EID: 34147093233     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00001507     Document Type: Editorial

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