Occupational lower airway disease in relation to World Trade Center inhalation exposure

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-102

  De La Hoz, Rafael E ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway diseases; asthma; bronchial hyperreactivity; bronchiolitis; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; inhalation injury; irritants; lung diseases; occupational diseases; toxic inhalation

Indexed keywords

TOXIC GAS;

AGORAPHOBIA; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUST EXPOSURE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FOLLOW UP; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MASS DISASTER; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINOSINUSITIS; SMALL AIRWAY DISEASE; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESCUE WORK; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS;

EID: 79952453175     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e3283449063     Document Type: Article

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