Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: Clinical features and their influence on survival

Thorax

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1980, Pages 171-180

  Turner Warwick, M ^a   Burrows, B ^a   Johnson, A ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0018881291     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.35.3.171     Document Type: Article

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