Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features and undifferentiated connective tissue disease: Our interdisciplinary rheumatology-pneumology experience, and review of the literature

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 61-70

  Ferri, Clodoveo ^a   Manfredi, Andreina ^a   Sebastiani, Marco ^a   Colaci, Michele ^a   Giuggioli, Dilia ^a   Vacchi, Caterina ^a   Della Casa, Giovanni ^a   Cerri, Stefania ^a   Torricelli, Pietro ^a   Luppi, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CTD; ILD; Interstitial pneumonia; IPAF; NSIP; UCTD; UIP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84955205931     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: 18730183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2015.09.003     Document Type: Review

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