Transbronchial biopsy and usual interstitial pneumonia: A step backward in disease management? [9]

Chest

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1628-

  Mukherjee, Suranjan ^a   Spiteri, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LETTER; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; BIOPSY; BRONCHUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOPSY; BRONCHI; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33751232962     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.130.5.1628     Document Type: Letter

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