Cough-variant asthma: a diagnostic dilemma in the occupational setting
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Cough-variant asthma: a diagnostic dilemma in the occupational setting.
BACKGROUND Cough-variant asthma (Corrao's syndrome) is defined as the presence of chronic non-productive cough in patients with bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) and response to bronchodilator therapy. This variant of asthma may present a diagnostic problem in occupational medicine. AIMS To describe additional evaluation of cough-variant asthma in a cyanoacrylate-exposed worker in whom stan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqu183