Marijuana medusa: The many pulmonary faces of marijuana inhalation in adolescent males

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1619-1626

  McGraw, Matthew D ^a   Houser, Grace H ^a   Galambos, Csaba ^b   Wartchow, Eric P ^b   Stillwell, Paul C ^a   Weinman, Jason P ^c  

^a University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute eosinophilic pneumonia; aluminum silicate pneumoconiosis; hypersensitivity pneumonitis; imaging; interstitial lung disease; marijuana

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; IBUPROFEN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; SALBUTAMOL; THIAMAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BODY WEIGHT LOSS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; EOSINOPHILIA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MARIJUANA INHALATION CESSATION; MYALGIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SILICOSIS; SORE THROAT; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BIOPSY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SILICOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85055571445     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.24171     Document Type: Article

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