Lung ossification: An orphan disease

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-104

  Konoglou, Maria ^a   Zarogoulidis, Paul ^a   Baliaka, Aggeliki ^b   Boutsikou, Eftimia ^a   Dramba, Vassiliki ^a   Tsakiridis, Kosmas ^c   Karapantzos, Ilias ^c   Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos ^d   Kougioumtzi, Ioanna ^d   Courcoutsakis, Nikolaos ^d   Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos ^a   Sakkas, Leonidas ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Saint Luke Private Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nodular disease; Ossification; Pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; EXTUBATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

EID: 84876737978     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2013.01.09     Document Type: Article

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