Croup, recurrent group, allergy, and airways hyper-reactivity.
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Croup, recurrent group, allergy, and airways hyper-reactivity.
One hundred and ten children were studied 9 years after each had been in hospital for croup. They were evaluated with a questionnaire, physical examination, allergy skin testing, pulmonary function tests, and a histamine inhalation challenge. Fifty-seven of them had recurrent episodes of croup, and 33 were defined as allergic. The association between allergy and recurrent croup was highly signi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.56.5.336