Imaging lung disease in systemic sclerosis

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 156-161

  Strollo, Diane ^a   Goldin, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT lung disease review; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PLACEBO;

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953476660     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-010-0095-0     Document Type: Review

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