Concurrent allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and aspergilloma: Is it a more severe form of the disease?

European Respiratory Review

Volumn 19, Issue 118, 2010, Pages 261-263

  Shah, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLOMA; ASPERGILLUS; COMORBIDITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; REPEATED DRUG DOSE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MYCETOMA; PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 78650352387     PISSN: 09059180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00009010     Document Type: Editorial

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