Survival in pulmonary fibrosis combined with emphysema: Likely defined by characteristics of specific patient subpopulations

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Todd, Nevins W ^a   Atamas, Sergei P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; SMOKING HABIT; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 80052367523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17551536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-1536-4-17     Document Type: Letter

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