Search engine as a diagnostic tool in difficult immunological and allergologic cases: Is Google useful?

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 459-464

  Lombardi, C ^a   Griffiths, E ^b   McLeod, B ^b   Caviglia, A ^a   Penagos, M ^b  

^a S Orsola Hospital   (Italy)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allergy; Difficult case; Google; Immunology; Search engine

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL DISEASE; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTERNET; MALABSORPTION; MUSCLE DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SEARCH ENGINE; URTICARIA; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA;

HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

EID: 68349112690     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2008.01875.x     Document Type: Article

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