Old dilemma: asthma with irreversible airway obstruction or COPD

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 467, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 583-593

  Fattahi, Fatemeh ^a   Vonk, Judith M ^a   Bulkmans, Nicole ^b   Fleischeuer, Ruth ^c   Gouw, Annette ^a   Grünberg, Katrien ^d   Mauad, Thais ^e   Popper, Helmut ^f   Felipe Silva, Aloisio ^e   Vrugt, Bart ^g   Wright, Joanne L ^h   Yang, Hui Min ^h   Kocks, Janwillem W H ^a   Hylkema, Machteld N ^a   Postma, Dirkje S ^a   Timens, Wim ^a   ten Hacken, Nick H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Infection and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^c CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Asthma COPD Overlap Syndrome; COPD; Pathology

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GOBLET CELL; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGIST; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SMOKING;

AGED; ASTHMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING;

EID: 84948089912     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: 14322307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-015-1824-6     Document Type: Article

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