Sarcoidosis of the upper and lower airways

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 823-833

  Morgenthau, Adam S ^a   Teirstein, Alvin S ^a  

^a Pulmonary Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Airways dysfunction; Laryngeal sarcoidosis; Mycetoma; Pulmonary sarcoidosis; Sinonasal sarcoidsois

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE;

ATELECTASIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LARYNX DISORDER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MYCETOMA; NASAL LAVAGE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SMALL AIRWAY DISEASE; TRACHEA DISEASE;

EID: 81255157068     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.11.66     Document Type: Review

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