Definitions are important and not all wheeze is asthma

Thorax

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 633-

  Scott, Martha ^a,b   Kurukulaaratchy, Ramesh J ^a,b   Arshad, S Hasan ^a,b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ASTHMA; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATOPY; CHILDHOOD; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHEEZING;

EID: 79959310458     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.143941     Document Type: Letter

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