Airway disease and emphysema on CT: Not just phenotypes of lung pathology

Thorax

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 380-382

  Paré, Peter D ^a   Camp, Pat G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIRWAY CONSTRICTION; AIRWAY REMODELING; BODE INDEX; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERINFLATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; ST GEORGE'S RESPIRATORY QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84859868883     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201769     Document Type: Editorial

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