Special considerations in adults for diagnoses that may coexist with or masquerade as asthma

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 455-460

  Peters, Stephen P ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SALBUTAMOL; THEOPHYLLINE; ZAFIRLUKAST;

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77953129451     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2009.11.039     Document Type: Review

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