Usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP) presenting with Wells grade III. Can imaging methods help predict further progression of disease?;Fibrosi polmonare idiopatica con grado III di Wells all'esordio. Possono le metodiche di diagnostica per immagini aiutare a predire la progressione ulteriore della malattia?

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 268-274

  Fasano, Luca ^a   Zompatori, Maurizio ^b   Monetti, Nino ^b   Battista, Giuseppe ^b   Pacilli, Angela M G ^a   Di Scioscio, Valerio ^c   Sciascia, Nicola ^c  

^a Radiologia Pneumonefro   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Lung, fibrosing alveolitis; Pulmonary fibrosing alveolitis, HRCT

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; PENTETIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032708686     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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