The thoracic cage becomes flattened in the progression of pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis

European Respiratory Review

Volumn 23, Issue 132, 2014, Pages 263-266

  Harada, Taishi ^a   Yoshida, Yuji ^a   Kitasato, Yasuhiko ^b   Tsuruta, Nobuko ^c   Wakamatsu, Kentaro ^d   Hirota, Takako ^a   Tanaka, Makoto ^a   Tashiro, Naoki ^a   Ishii, Hiroshi ^a   Shiraishi, Motokimi ^a   Fujita, Masaki ^a   Nagata, Nobuhiko ^e   Watanabe, Kentaro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kurume Daiichi Hospital   (Japan)

^c HAMANOMACHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Omuta National Hospital   (Japan)

^e Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FLAT THORAX; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEUROPARENCHYMAL FIBROELASTOSIS; RATIO OF THE ANTEROPOSTERIOR DIAMETER OF THE THORACIC CAGE TO THE TRANSVERSE DIAMETER OF THE THORACIC CAGE; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; THORACIC CAVITY; THORAX DEFORMITY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VERY ELDERLY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX WALL; TIME; VITAL CAPACITY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; THORACIC WALL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84901786845     PISSN: 09059180     EISSN: 16000617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00006713     Document Type: Letter

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