The alcoholic lung disease: historical background and clinical features

Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 651-664

  Karkoulias, Kiriakos ^a   Tsitsaras, Haralampos ^a   Patouchas, Dimitrios ^a   Sampsonas, Fotis ^a   Likouras, Dimostenis ^a   Kaparianos, Alexander ^a   Spiropoulas, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alcohol; History; Lung; Physiology

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GREECE; GUINEA PIG; HISTORY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RABBIT; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; SMOKING; SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; BIBLE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GREECE; GUINEA PIGS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MICE; RABBITS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

EID: 58149152881     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina44090084     Document Type: Review

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