Significance of serum surfactant protein-D (SP-D) level in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

Kekkaku

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 585-590

  Kondo, Ariyoshi ^a   Oketani, Norihiro ^a   Maruyama, Michio ^a   Taguchi, Youko ^a   Yamaguchi, Yoshibumi ^a   Miyao, Hiromi ^a   Mashima, Ichiro ^a   Oono, Michiko ^a   Wada, Kouichi ^a   Tsuchiya, Toshimasa ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Abe, Shousaku ^a  

^a Department of Respiratory Medicine Natl Sanat Nishi Niigata Chuo B ^*

Author keywords

Active pulmonary tuberculosis; Healthy elderly subjects; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF); Serum surfactant protein D (SP D)

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LUNG SURFACTANT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 7844227667     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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