Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 7 , Pages 1025-1032, July 2009

Induced sputum eosinophilia in ulcerative colitis patients: The lung as a mirror image of intestine?

  • Elizabeth Fireman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 3 3988; fax: +972 3 4601.
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  • Farid Masarwy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
    • Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Haifa, Israel
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  • Gabi Groisman

      Affiliations

    • Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Haifa, Israel
    • Department of Pathology, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
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  • Moshe Shtark

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
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  • Yael Kopelman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
    • Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Haifa, Israel
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  • Shmuel Kivity

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
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  • Zvi Fireman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
    • Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Haifa, Israel

Received 15 October 2008; accepted 15 January 2009. published online 23 February 2009.

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PII: S0954-6111(09)00031-6

doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2009.01.016

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 7 , Pages 1025-1032, July 2009