Lipoid pneumonia: A challenging diagnosis

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 580-584

  Harris, Kassem ^a   Chalhoub, Michel ^a   Maroun, Rabih ^a   Abi Fadel, Francois ^a   Zhao, Fan ^a  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; SALBUTAMOL; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; MALE; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUMOR; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WEDGE RESECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, LIPID; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053989455     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: 15273288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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