Volume 21, Issue 2, April-June 2008

Contents

Editorials
The new ATS/ERS/JRS IPF guidelines [PDF Format]
Demosthenes Bouros

Global strategy for asthma: Searching for asthma control… To be continued [PDF Format]
S. Loukides, K. Kostikas

Reviews
Adaptative mechanisms during chronic hypoxia in COPD [SUMMARY] [PDF Format]
V. Papaioannou, I. Pneumatikos

Idiopathic eosinophilic lung diseases. A new approach to pathogenesis and treatment [SUMMARY] [PDF Format]
K. Pigakis, G. Meletis, M. Ferdoutsis, G. Patsourakis, N. Bachlitzanakis

Brief review
Cadmium (Cd) as a carcinogenetic factor and its participation in the induction of lung cancer [SUMMARY] [PDF Format]
A. Zarros, N. Skandali, Η. Al-Humadi, C. Liapi

Case reports
Waldenström’s macroglobulinaemia: chest involvement as the first manifestation of the disease [SUMMARY] [PDF Format]
E. Gaki, E. Ischaki, I. Papa, K. Zeimpekoglou

Buccal and cutaneous metastases of lung adenocarcinoma-A case study [SUMMARY] [PDF Format]
C. Dimitropoulos, I. Kostara, P. Kalkandi, A. Kapoula, E. Papaliodi, F. Vlastos, K. Frangia, P. Kythreotis

Thematic series
The rοle of b-lymphocytes in lung disease [SUMMARY] [PDF Format]
K. Zeimpekoglou