Quantitative analysis of high-resolution computed tomography scans in severe asthma subphenotypes

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 775-781

  Gupta, Sumit ^a   Siddiqui, Salman ^a   Haldar, Pranab ^a   Entwisle, James J ^b   Mawby, Dean ^b   Wardlaw, Andrew J ^a   Bradding, Peter ^a   Pavord, Ian D ^a   Green, Ruth H ^a   Brightling, Christopher E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY REMODELING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY SURFACE; BRONCHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SPUTUM; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; BRONCHOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AIRWAY REMODELING; ASTHMA; BRONCHI; BRONCHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; PHENOTYPE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956796272     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.136374     Document Type: Article

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