The clinical significance of histopathologic subgroups in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: Is surgical lung biopsy essential?

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 347-356

  Collard, H R ^a   King T E , Jr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Interstitial pneumonia; Lung biopsy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; PIRFENIDONE; PREDNISONE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IDIOPATHIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034834922     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-17380     Document Type: Conference Paper

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