A 48-year-old woman with prior liver disease presenting with dyspnea and ground glass opacities

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Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1351-1355

  Hamburg, Brian J ^a   Schneider, Frank ^b   Woodske, Matthew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ANTISYNTHETASE SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; AUTOIMMUNE LUNG DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84860560077     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-1973     Document Type: Review

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