Taking a giant step in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 82-84

  Tzilas, Vasilios ^a   Valeyre, Dominique ^b,c   Tzouvelekis, Argyris ^a   Bouros, Demosthenes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG FIBROSIS;

HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 85034431813     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(17)30443-5     Document Type: Note

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