Mounier-Kuhn syndrome: Overcoming a lack of recognition

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-15

  Abdallah, Elie G ^a   Ashton, Rendell W ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SILICONE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AUTOPSY; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONGENITAL MEGATRACHEA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPUTUM; STENT; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL STENTING; TRACHEOBRONCHOMEGALY;

HUMANS; TRACHEOBRONCHOMEGALY;

EID: 37849001487     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31815d4356     Document Type: Editorial

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