A new hypothesis on the mechanism of digital clubbing secondary to pulmonary pathologies

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 511-513

  Toovey, Oliver T R ^a   Eisenhauer, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; COLLAGENASE; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL POPULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUBBING FINGERS; FIBROGENESIS; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; MACROPHAGE; NAIL BED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE REPAIR;

HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC;

EID: 77958481475     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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