Titanium and iron in lung of a soldier with nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis and bronchiolitis after returning from Iraq

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-2

  Szema, Anthony M ^a,b,c   Schmidt, Millicent P ^d   Lanzirotti, Antonio ^e,f   Harrington, Andrea D ^d   Lyubsky, Sergey ^b   Reeder, Richard J ^d   Schoonen, Martin A A ^d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Stony Brook Medicine   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE; IRON; PREDNISONE; TITANIUM;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COUGHING; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; IRAQ; LAUNDRY; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; SOLDIER; WHEEZING;

EID: 84855798953     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31824327ca     Document Type: Letter

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