Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 3, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Martinez, Fernando J ^a   Collard, Harold R ^b   Pardo, Annie ^c   Raghu, Ganesh ^d   Richeldi, Luca ^e   Selman, Moises ^f   Swigris, Jeffrey J ^g   Taniguchi, Hiroyuki ^h   Wells, Athol U ⁱ  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS   (Mexico)

^g DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h TOSEI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

ⁱ ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN;

HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 85031926032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2017.74     Document Type: Review

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