Asbestos-related pleural and lung fibrosis in patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Uibu, Toomas ^a   Järvenpää, Ritva ^a   Hakomäki, Jari ^a   Auvinen, Anssi ^b   Honkanen, Eero ^c   Metsärinne, Kaj ^d   Roto, Pekka ^e   Saha, Heikki ^a   Uitti, Jukka ^a   Oksa, Panu ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e Finnish Student Health Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA; PLEURA DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS;

AGED; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57249086488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17501172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-1172-3-29     Document Type: Article

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