Croup: An overview

American Family Physician

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1067-1073

  Zoorob, Roger ^a   Sidani, Mohamad ^a   Murray, John ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANAMNESIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; CROUP; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEVER; FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATION; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEITIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 79956350387     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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