FORTHCOMING MEETINGS |
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EDITORIAL |
265 | Phil Thompson
Editor-in-Chief |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: PLEURAL DISEASES |
266 | Advances in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma
Daniel H STERMAN, Steven M ALBELDA |
REVIEW ARTICLE |
284 | Treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Is there anything new?
Muntasir M ABDELAZIZ, Yaseen S SAMMAN, Siraj O WALI, Mahir MA HAMAD |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
290 | Levels of tumour necrosis factor-α and IL-1α in newly diagnosed and multidrug resistant tuberculosis
Tulin CAGATAY, Bayram KIRAN, Sibel YURT, Ziya GULBARAN, Filiz KOSAR, Penbe CAGATAY |
295 | Serum IL-18 levels in tuberculosis: Comparison with pneumonia, lung cancer and healthy controls
Metin AKGUN, Leyla SAGLAM, Hasan KAYNAR, A Kadir YILDIRIM, Arzu MIRICI, Metin GORGUNER, Mehmet MERAL, Kemalettin OZDEN |
300 | Clinical usefulness of serum pyridinoline cross-linked carboxyterminal telopeptide of type I collagen for diagnosis of bone metastases in patients with primary lung cancer
Toshihiko YOKOYAMA, Masashi YAMAMOTO, Kouichiro SHIMA, Katsuo SUZUKI, Chieko SAKO, Genshi ITO, Mitsuyoshi KUME, Masao MAEDA |
305 | Antioxidant enzyme activities in healthy Chinese adults: influence of age, gender and smoking
Siu P HO, Moira CHAN-YEUNG, Kathy KM CHOW, Mary SM IP, Judith CW MAK |
310 | Predictive equations and the reliability of the impulse oscillatory system in Japanese adult subjects
Satomi SHIOTA, Masako KATOH, Mitsuhiro FUJII, Shigeyuki AOKI, Rokuro MATSUOKA, Yoshinosuke FUKUCHI |
316 | High resolution CT and bronchial reversibility test for diagnosing COPD
Kazuyoshi KURASHIMA, Noboru TAKAYANAGI, Nagato SATO, Tetsu KANAUCHI, Toshiko HOSHI, Daido TOKUNAGA, Mikio UBUKATA, Tsutomu YANAGISAWA, Yutaka SUGITA, Minoru KANAZAWA |
323 | Comparison of existing symptom-based questionnaires for identifying COPD in the general practice setting
Constant P VAN SCHAYCK, Ronald J HALBERT, Robert J NORDYKE, Sharon ISONAKA, Jaman MARONI, Dmitry NONIKOV |
334 | Outcomes and health-related quality of life following hospitalization for an acute exacerbation of COPD
Qiuyue WANG, Jean BOURBEAU |
341 | Patterns of care for COPD by Japanese physicians
Shunichi FUKUHARA, Masaharu NISHIMURA, Robert J NORDYKE, Carol A ZAHER, John W PEABODY |
349 | The efficacy of incentive spirometry in patients with COPD
Ozen Kacmaz BASOGLU, Alev ATASEVER, Feza BACAKOGLU |
354 | Prevalence and clinical features of cough variant asthma in a general internal medicine outpatient clinic in Japan
Kumiko SHIRAHATA, Keisaku FUJIMOTO, Hiroko ARIOKA, Ryousuke SHOUDA, Kouichirou KUDO, Shu-ichi IKEDA |
359 | Cough symptoms in children aged 5-14 years in Sydney, Australia: non-specific cough or unrecognized pertussis?
Michelle CAGNEY, C Raina MacINTYRE, Peter McINTYRE, Siranda TORVALDSEN, Vincent MELOT |
365 | Inflammatory profile in nasal secretions of infants hospitalized with acute lower airway tract infections
Paulo MC PITREZ, Siobhain BRENNAN, Peter D SLY |
371 | Addition of macrolide in treating adult hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia
Li-Cher LOH, Soong-Yuen QUAH, Sert-Kim KHOO, Pillai VIJAYASINGHAM, Tarmizi THAYAPARAN |
378 | Factors related to recurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax
Yubiao GUO, Canmao XIE, R Michael RODRIGUEZ, Richard W LIGHT |
SHORT REPORT |
385 | Successful withdrawal of inhaled corticosteroids in childhood asthma
B Jayasiri C PERERA |
CASE REPORTS |
389 | Pulmonary involvement in Erdheim-Chester disease
Jae H CHUNG, Moo S PARK, Dong H SHIN, Kyu O CHOE, Se K KIM, Joon CHANG, Sung K KIM, Young S KIM |
393 | Successful treatment of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent host
Gulru POLAT, Gulcan URPEK, Ufuk YILMAZ, Melih BUYUKSIRIN, Serpil KARADAG POLAT, Servet ULUER, Gultekin TIBET |
396 | Aspergillus pacemaker endocarditis presenting as pulmonary embolism
A MATEOS-COLINO, R GOLPE, A GONZALEZ-RODRIGUEZ, C GONZALEZ-JUANATEY, JJ LEGARRA, M BLANCO |
399 | Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia infection in a patient with known chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
Damian J McKEON, William WHITE, David SINCLAIR, John M GOLDMAN |
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
402 | Causes and management of pleural fibrosis
Vasilios A FELEKIS |
403 | Familial spontaneous pneumothorax
Dimitrios MIKROULIS, Abayomi L LUKMAN, Vassilios DIDILIS, Georgios BOUGIOUKAS |
CORRIGENDUM |
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