Diagnosis of alveolitis in interstitial lung manifestation in connective tissue diseases: Importance of late inspiratory crackles, 67 gallium scan and bronchoalveolar lavage

Lupus

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 606-612

  Witt, C ^a,b   Dorner T ^a   Hiepe, F ^a   Borges, A C ^a   Fietze, I ^a   Baumann, G ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alveolitis; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Connective tissue diseases; Interstitial lung manifestation

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0030444991     PISSN: 09612033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096120339600500609     Document Type: Article

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