Case for diagnosis: 4-Month-old infant with increasing cough, hemoptysis, and anemia

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 844-846

  Snijders, D ^a   Stenghele, C ^a   Monciotti, C ^a   Lo Piccolo, R ^a   Alaggio, R ^a   Zanon, G F ^a   Barbato, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cough; Juvenile xanthogranuloma; Lung

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL; HEMOPTYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; JUVENILE XANTHOGRANULOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANEMIA; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; COUGH; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; XANTHOGRANULOMA, JUVENILE;

EID: 35348848328     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20600     Document Type: Article

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