Death in status asthmaticus: a clinical analysis of eighteen cases.
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A clinical and pathological study of fatal cases of status asthmaticus.
Altho,ugh over 200 fatal cases of asthma have been reported with detailed microscopic findings (Unger, 1945) the train of events leading to death in status asthmaticus is still not fully understood. The obscurity is largely due to the inherent difficulty in assessing the relative importance of the pathological changes found, but has been increased by the fact that not all the patients whose cas...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Diseases of the chest
دوره 48 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1965