Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis as a manifestation of chronic lung rejection?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 243-245

  Hirota, Takako ^a   Fujita, Masaki ^a   Matsumoto, Takemasa ^a   Higuchi, Takao ^a   Shiraishi, Takeshi ^a   Minami, Masato ^b   Okumura, Meinoshin ^b   Nabeshima, Kazuki ^a   Watanabe, Kentaro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LETTER; LIVING DONOR; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; PLEUROPARENCHYMAL FIBROELASTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 84872178012     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00103912     Document Type: Letter

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