Approach to chronic cough
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Cough hypersensitivity syndrome: towards a new approach to chronic cough.
Although cough is a highly frequent motive for visiting the doctor among both adults and children in primary care [1, 2], it usually resolves spontaneously within a few days or weeks. Conversely, chronic cough, broadly defined as cough persisting for more than 8 weeks, is often a more difficult clinical situation from both diagnostic and therapeutic perspectives [3]. In many patients, the anato...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tuberkuloz ve Toraks
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0494-1373
DOI: 10.5578/tt.57253