Recent advances in hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Chest

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 208-217

  Lacasse, Yves ^a   Girard, Meĺissa ^a   Cormier, Yvon ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; PENTOXIFYLLINE; STEROID;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPNEA; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HOT TUB LUNG; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INHALATION TEST; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; METAL WORKING FLUID ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM IMMUNOGENUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863799505     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-2479     Document Type: Article

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