Pulmonary inflammation in asbestos-exposed subjects with borderline parenchymal changes on HRCT

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1042-1049

  Lehtimäki, Lauri ^a,b   Oksa, Panu ^b,c   Järvenpää, Ritva ^b   Vierikko, Tuula ^b   Nieminen, Riina ^a,b   Kankaanranta, Hannu ^a,d   Uitti, Jukka ^b,c   Moilanen, Eeva ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^d SEINÄJOKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Breath tests; Computed tomography; Mediators of inflammation; Pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed keywords

8 ISOPROSTANE; LEUKOTRIENE B4; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; BREATH ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHALATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952881846     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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