Dr. Frank T Leone MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
51 N. 39th Street Phi Bldg 1st Floor Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Frank Leone practices Pulmonology in Philadelphia, PA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Leone manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
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- Tobacco smoking as a chronic disease: notes on prevention and treatment.
- Differences in platelet serotonin transporter sites between African-American tobacco smokers and non-smokers.
- Lung cancer: the oncologist's role in smoking cessation.
- Twenty-first century tobacco use: it is not just a risk factor anymore.
- The genetic determinants of smoking.
- A comparison of smoking habits among medical and nursing students.
- Tobacco smoking: current concepts in etiology and treatment.
- Medical symptoms associated with tobacco smoking with and without marijuana abuse among crack cocaine-dependent patients.
- Changes in tobacco smoking following treatment for cocaine dependence.
- The solitary pulmonary nodule: not always bronchogenic carcinoma.
- Short-, intermediate-, and long-term outcomes of Pennsylvania's continuum of tobacco education pilot project.
- Behavioral interventions in tobacco dependence.
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