Airway involvement in interstitial lung disease

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 337-341

  Cordeiro, Carlos Robalo ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acute fibrinous organizing pneumonia; Airway centered interstitial fibrosis; Interstitial lung diseases; Peribronchiolar metaplasia; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MACROPHAGE; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; REVIEW;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 33748152404     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mcp.0000239550.47702.bd     Document Type: Review

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