Bronchoalveolar lavage cellularity: Lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis compared with the fibrosing alveolitis of systemic sclerosis

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 5 PART I, 1998, Pages 1474-1482

  Wells, Athol U ^a   Hansell, David M ^b   Haslam, Patricia L ^b   Rubens, Michael B ^b   Cailes, Jeremy ^b   Black, Carol M ^b   Du Bois, Roland M ^b  

^a GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0031778383     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.157.5.9609096     Document Type: Article

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