Erdheim-Chester disease: A rare cause of interstitial lung disease

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Pinheiro, L ^b   Kaw, G ^b   Sittampalam, K ^b   Teo, C H Y ^b   Kong, Po Marn ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b Department of General Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Erdheim Chester disease; Histiocytosis; Interstitial lung disease; Lung

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; PREDNISOLONE; CD1 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; T6 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LANGERHANS CELL; MALAISE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FATALITY; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD1; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 34447509641     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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