Pathology of hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 440-454

  Takemura, Tamiko ^a   Akashi, Takumi ^b   Ohtani, Yoshio ^b   Inase, Naohiko ^b   Yoshizawa, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bridging fibrosis; Centrilobular fibrosis; Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia pattern; Usual interstitial pneumonia pattern

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; AUTOPSY; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMPHYSEMA; EPITHELIOID CELL; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CYST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BIOPSY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG; PATHOLOGY;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 53149129491     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e3283043dfa     Document Type: Review

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