Inhalation of hydrocarbon combustion products as a cause of dendriform pulmonary ossification

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 981-982

  Baddini Martinez, José Antônio ^a   Ramos, Simone Gusmão ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; KEROSENE;

CALCINOSIS; COMBUSTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; METALLURGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHEEZING;

HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 53949096099     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.07.021     Document Type: Letter

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