Diffuse interlobular septal thickening in a coal miner

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-84

  Thrumurthy, S G ^a   Kearney, S ^a   Sissons, M ^a   Haider, Y ^a  

^a Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COAL WORKER; COUGHING; DIFFUSE INTERLOBAR SEPTAL THICKENING; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPIROMETRY; TELANGIECTASIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 73449134475     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2009.121418     Document Type: Article

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