British Journal of Diseases of the Chest
Overview
British Journal of Diseases of the Chest is a scientific journal, published since 1959 in English. The journal's country of origin is United Kingdom and its primary focus area is pulmonary medicine.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Br J Dis Chest
Start
1959
End
1988
Frequency
Quarterly
p-ISSN
0007-0971
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Specialty
Pulmonary Medicine
Recent Articles
1.
Bourke S, Campbell J, Henderson A, Stevenson R
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):444-6.
PMID: 3256359
Apical pulmonary fibrosis has been established as a non-articular complication of ankylosing spondylitis. Although psoriasis is frequently associated with arthropathy and spondylitis, there is only one previous report of apical...
2.
Oliver R, Neville E
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):439-43.
PMID: 3256358
We report two patients with bilateral apical pleural fibrosis which may be a form of benign asbestos-related pleurisy, one of these being steroid responsive. The pulmonary function defect of reduced...
3.
Stenton S, Kelly C, Walters E, Hendrick D
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):436-8.
PMID: 3256357
We report two subjects without previous evidence of asthma in whom wheeze, breathlessness and bronchial hyperresponsiveness occurred following an acute smoke inhalation injury.
4.
McConnochie K, Williams W, Kilpatrick G, Wiliams W
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):431-5.
PMID: 3256356
Identical male twins born in 1959 have developed chronic beryllium disease. Twin 1 was exposed to beryllium for more than 3 years. The diagnosis was first suspected at the time...
5.
Page A, Wells I, Clarke T
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):426-30.
PMID: 3256355
Haemangiopericytoma, a rare mesenchymal tumour infrequently found within the thorax, is described in a patient who presented with a pleural mass following a lower respiratory tract infection. Specific radiological features...
6.
Wasser L, Talavera W, Villamena P, Akin M, Fox K
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):421-5.
PMID: 3256354
A 32-year-old male intravenous drug abuser was admitted to our institution with constitutional symptoms and sputum smears containing acid-fast bacilli, but no parenchymal disease on chest radiograph. He subsequently developed...
7.
Karnik A, Elhag K, FENECH F
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):418-20.
PMID: 3256353
Pulmonary infection caused by Arachnia propionica in a patient with hairy cell leukaemia is described. The organism is highly sensitive to penicillin but the patient succumbed to his illness despite...
8.
Harrison D, Simpson R, Neary C, Wathen C
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):398-404.
PMID: 3256352
Seventeen patients with Wegener's granuloma (WG), all of whom had renal biopsies taken at presentation, are reviewed. In conjunction with nasal or transbronchial biopsies renal biopsies aided diagnosis and also...
9.
Lindahl M, Andersson O, RIPE E, Holm G
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):386-93.
PMID: 3256351
BAL and blood mononuclear cells and their reactivity to Kveim antigen, tuberculin and concanavalin A (Con A) were studied in nine patients with different clinical stages of sarcoidosis. After separation...
10.
Currie A, Gallagher P
Br J Dis Chest
. 1988 Oct;
82(4):382-5.
PMID: 3256350
In this study post-mortem angiograms were prepared from both normal and clubbed hands and attempts were made to estimate the size of the vascular bed in the terminal parts of...