A case of bucillamine-induced interstitial pneumonia with positive lymphocyte stimulation test for bucillamine using bronchoalveolar lavage lymphocytes

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 1739-1744

  Saito, Yoshinobu ^a   Nei, Takahito ^a   Abe, Shinji ^a   Usuki, Jiro ^a   Azuma, Arata ^a   Nakayama, Tomoko ^a   Fukuda, Yuh ^a   Kudoh, Shoji ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Bucillamine; Drug lymphocyte stimulation test; Interstitial pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; AMLODIPINE; BUCILLAMINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CANDESARTAN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CETRAXATE; FLOMOXEF; PREDNISOLONE; RANITIDINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; CYSTEINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHITIS; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 35748954958     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0139     Document Type: Article

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