A cancer that went up in smoke pulmonary reaction to e-cigarettes imitating metastatic cancer

Chest

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2016, Pages e65-e67

  Madsen, Lene Ring ^a   Krarup, Niels Henrik Vinther ^a   Bergmann, Troels Korshøj ^b   Brentzen, Steen ^b   Neghabat, Shadman ^b   Duval, Lone ^a   Knudsen, Søren Tang ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Department of Clinical Pharmacology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy (lung); Chest imaging; Foreign bodies; Inflammation; Smoking

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG BIOPSY; METASTASIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX CANCER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SECONDARY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84960325435     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2015.09.003     Document Type: Article

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