Two Sisters with Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis
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Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis.
INDIAN PEDIATRICS 1056 VOLUME 42__OCTOBER 17, 2005 antibody: negative, immunoglobulin profile: normal, anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) negative, computerized tomography (CT) of chest: alveolar damage with hazy lung fields (Fig. 1). Thoracoscopic lung biopsy displayed multiple nodules of varying sizes on the lung surface, histopathologic examination exhibited alveolar spaces filled w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Respiratory Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1198-2241
DOI: 10.1155/2007/150926