Potential limitations of clinical criteria for the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis

Respiration

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-169

  Peckham, Russell M ^a   Shorr, Andrew F ^a   Helman Jr , Donald L ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Interstitial lung disease; Usual interstitial pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE (SPECIALTY); PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1942499481     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076678     Document Type: Article

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