In the modern era, pulmonologists tend to pursue only for laboratory or radiological findings in the evaluation of patients with respiratory illness. Indeed, physical examination skills seemed to be easily disparaging especially in younger physicians. Physical examination is the quickest way of diagnosis and requires no extra cost, which sometimes leads to rapid diagnosis via inspection, palpitation, percussion, and auscultation. In this regards, we demonstrate the quite typical and/or unique physical signs using video, photograph and other procedures. This special issue comprises of two components such as
1) Description of peculiar physical findings in various respiratory diseases (ie, COPD, pneumonia, asthma, interstitial pneumonia, etc) and 2) Physical signs suggestive of cardiac complications in patients with respiratory diseases. We believe that those physical findings would be educative and instructive for all physicians in the view of rapid diagnosis of respiratory or comorbid cardiac diseases.
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Takeshi Saraya*, Taro Minami*, Sunao Mikura, Toru Satoh and Hajime Takizawa
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Takeshi Saraya*, Saori Takata, Masachika Fujiwara, Manabu Ishida, Miku Oda, Kosuke Ohkuma, Takayasu Watanabe, Yukari Ogawa, Naoki Tsujimoto, Masaki Tamura, Takuma Yokoyama, Daisuke Kurai, Haruyuki Ishii and Hajime Takizawa
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Sadatomo Tasaka*, Takeshi Saraya, Hiroshi Kuraishi, Hisako Simbara, Keisuke Oda and Hajime Takizawa
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Takeshi Saraya*, Taro Minami*, Sunao Mikura, Toru Satoh and Hajime Takizawa
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Sunao Mikura, Takeshi Saraya*, Taro Minami*, Toru Satoh, Keisuke Oda, Hisako Shinbara, Sadatomo Tasaka, Hiroshi Kuraishi MD and Hajime Takizawa
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Takeshi Saraya*, Sunao Mikura, Taro Minami*, Toru Satoh, Haruyuki Ishii and Hajime Takizawa
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Sunao Mikura, Takeshi Saraya*, Toru Satoh, Hiroki Nunokawa, Taro Minami* and Hajime Takizawa
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Sunao Mikura, Takeshi Saraya*, Toru Satoh, Hiroki Nunokawa, Taro Minami* and Hajime Takizawa
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Sunao Mikura, Takeshi Saraya*, Taro Minami*, Toru Satoh and Hajime Takizawa
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Sunao Mikura, Takeshi Saraya*, Taro Minami*, Toru Satoh and Hajime Takizawa
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