An International collaborative pathologic study of surgical lung biopsies from mustard gas-exposed patients

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 825-830

  Ghanei, Mostafa ^a   Tazelaar, Henry D ^b   Chilosi, Marco ^c   Harandi, Ali Amini ^a   Peyman, Mohammadreza ^a   Akbari, Hassan Mohammad Hosseini ^a   Shamsaei, Hassan ^a   Bahadori, Moslem ^d   Aslani, Jafar ^a   Mohammadi, Azam ^e  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bronchiolitis; Lung; Pathology; Sulfur mustard; Surgical lung biopsy

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EXPOSURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MUSTARD GAS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY; WAR;

EID: 43049158102     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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