Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 537-556

  Ohshimo, Shinichiro ^a   Bonella, Francesco ^b   Guzman, Josune ^c   Costabel, Ulrich ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RUHRLANDKLINIK   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird fancier's disease; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Farmer's lung; HRCT; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROVOCATION TEST; REVIEW; SMOKING; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SMOKING;

EID: 84868012107     PISSN: 08898561     EISSN: 15578607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iac.2012.08.008     Document Type: Review

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