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Research Article

• Risk of tuberculosis in immigrant Asians: culturally acquired immunodeficiency? (1 January, 1991)

  P. J. Finch, F. J. Millard, J. D. Maxwell
• Effect of negative pressure ventilation on arterial blood gas pressures and inspiratory muscle strength during an exacerbation of chronic obstructive lung disease. (1 January, 1991)

  J. M. Montserrat, J. A. Martos, A. Alarcon, R. Celis, V. Plaza, C. Picado
• The protective effect of a beta 2 agonist against excessive airway narrowing in response to bronchoconstrictor stimuli in asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease. (1 January, 1991)

  E. H. Bel, A. H. Zwinderman, M. C. Timmers, J. H. Dijkman, P. J. Sterk
• Corticosteroid treatment as a risk factor for invasive aspergillosis in patients with lung disease. (1 January, 1991)

  L. B. Palmer, H. E. Greenberg, M. J. Schiff
• Continuous extrapleural intercostal nerve block after pleurectomy. (1 January, 1991)

  E. J. Mozell, S. Sabanathan, A. J. Mearns, P. J. Bickford-Smith, M. R. Majid, G. Zografos
• Erythropoietin concentrations in obstructive sleep apnoea. (1 January, 1991)

  J. M. Goldman, R. M. Ireland, M. Berthon-Jones, R. R. Grunstein, C. E. Sullivan, J. C. Biggs
• Effects of hypercapnia and hypocapnia on respiratory resistance in normal and asthmatic subjects. (1 January, 1991)

  F. J. van den Elshout, C. L. van Herwaarden, H. T. Folgering
• Abnormal lung function associated with asbestos disease of the pleura, the lung, and both: a comparative analysis. (1 January, 1991)

  K. H. Kilburn, R. H. Warshaw
• Cysteine and glutathione concentrations in plasma and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid after treatment with N-acetylcysteine. (1 January, 1991)

  M. M. Bridgeman, M. Marsden, W. MacNee, D. C. Flenley, A. P. Ryle
• Measures of reversibility in response to bronchodilators in chronic airflow obstruction: relation to airway calibre. (1 January, 1991)

  D. C. Weir, P. Sherwood Burge
• Cystic fibrosis. 3. Cloning the cystic fibrosis gene: implications for diagnosis and treatment. (1 January, 1991)

  D. J. Porteous, J. R. Dorin
• Assisted ventilation. 4. Weaning from mechanical ventilation. (1 January, 1991)

  J. Goldstone, J. Moxham
• Digital gangrene in small cell lung cancer: response to aspirin treatment. (1 January, 1991)

  J. E. Arrowsmith, M. A. Woodhead, D. H. Bevan, E. M. Nanson, A. R. Cummin
• Peripheral mucoepidermoid tumour of the lung. (1 January, 1991)

  L. K. Green, T. L. Gallion, F. Gyorkey
• Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid presenting as multifocal bronchial carcinoid tumour. (1 January, 1991)

  J. E. Clague, M. G. Pearson, A. Sharma, W. Taylor
• Fourth annual North American and 1990 International Cystic Fibrosis Conference. (1 January, 1991)

  J. S. Elborn