Hypersensitivity pneumonia: The role of lung biopsy in diagnosis and management

Modern Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-67

  Myers, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Hypersensitivity pneumonia; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Lung biopsy; Usual interstitial pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; BIOPSY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG;

EID: 84860597712     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.152     Document Type: Article

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