Respiratory bronchiolitis, respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease, and desquamative interstitial pneumonia: Different entities or part of the spectrum of the same disease process?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1617-1622

  Heyneman, Laura E ^a   Ward, Suzanne ^a   Lynch, David A ^b   Remy Jardin, Martine ^c   Johkoh, Takeshi ^d   Müller, Nestor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032717980     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.173.6.10584810     Document Type: Article

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