Dyspnea in a patient with Mounier-Kuhn syndrome

Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-148

  Puthalapattu, Swathy ^a   Udoji, Timothy N ^a   Bechara, Rabih I ^a,b   Ioachimescu, Octavian C ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mounier Kuhn syndrome; Non small cell carcinoma; Pleomorphic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MEGATRACHEA; COUGHING; CRYOTHERAPY; CYBERKNIFE; DYSPNEA; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SMOKING; STRIDOR; TRACHEA TUMOR; TRACHEOBRONCHOMEGALY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, COMPLEX AND MIXED; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; TRACHEAL NEOPLASMS; TRACHEOBRONCHOMEGALY;

EID: 84863651156     PISSN: 19446586     EISSN: 19488270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/LBR.0b013e318253181f     Document Type: Article

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