A young man with bronchial asthma and an abnormal chest X-ray
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A young man with bronchial asthma and an abnormal chest X-ray.
A 29-year-old man with bronchial asthma of 5 years duration was using inhaled salbutamol. In view of recurrent exacerbations, he had been put on oral prednisolone 20 mg/day for the last year. He did not smoke tobacco or drink alcohol. He had no other complaints. Clinically he had moon facies, buValo hump, centripetal obesity, purple striae on flanks and proximal myopathy. His blood pressure was...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.76.891.41