Biopsy-proved idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Spectrum of nondiagnostic thin-section CT diagnoses

Radiology

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 957-964

  Sverzellati, Nicola ^a   Wells, Athol U ^b   Tomassetti, Sara ^c   Desai, Sujal R ^d   Copley, Susan J ^e   Aziz, Zelena A ^f   Zompatori, Maurizio ^g   Chilosi, Marco ^h   Nicholson, Andrew G ^b   Poletti, Venerino ^c   Hansell, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MORGAGNI PIERANTONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950101227     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.0990898     Document Type: Article

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