Clinical profile, diagnostic delay, and genetic make-up of cystic fibrosis in Kashmir, India

Lung India

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-100

  Mir, Tasaduq Ahmad ^a   Ashraf, Mohd ^a   Ahmed, Kaiser ^b   Chowdhary, Javed ^b   Rehana, B ^b   Ahmed, Javid ^a  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; cystic fibrosis; diagnostic delay; ethnology; genetic make up; Kashmir

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBBING FINGERS; CONSANGUINITY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIARRHEA; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERINFLATION; INDIA; INFANT; IONTOPHORESIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; PALLOR; PANCREAS CYST; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RHINITIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 79960209087     PISSN: 09702113     EISSN: 0974598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.80318     Document Type: Article

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