Bird fancier's lung which developed in a pigeon breeder presenting organizing pneumonia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2605-2608

  Ito, Takafumi ^a   Sugino, Keishi ^a   Satoh, Daisuke ^a   Muramatsu, Yoko ^a   Sano, Go ^a   Sato, Keita ^a   Sakaguchi, Shinji ^a   Isobe, Kazutoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Susumu ^a   Takai, Yujiro ^a   Hata, Yoshinobu ^a   Shibuya, Kazutosi ^a   Uekusa, Toshimasa ^b   Kurosaki, Atsuko ^c   Homma, Sakae ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KANTO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bird fancier's lung; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Organizing pneumonia; Pigeon; Reversed halo sign

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN KL 6; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BIRD BREEDER LUNG; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGED; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ANIMALS; BIRD FANCIER'S LUNG; COLUMBIDAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 78649774431     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3664     Document Type: Article

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