Diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical practice guideline

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2018, Pages e44-e68

  Raghu, Ganesh ^a   Remy Jardin, Martine ^b   Myers, Jeffrey L ^b   Richeldi, Luca ^b   Ryerson, Christopher J ^b   Lederer, David J ^b   Behr, Juergen ^b   Cottin, Vincent ^b   Danoff, Sonye K ^b   Morell, Ferran ^b   Flaherty, Kevin R ^b   Wells, Athol ^b   Martinez, Fernando J ^b   Azuma, Arata ^b   Bice, Thomas J ^b   Bouros, Demosthenes ^b   Brown, Kevin K ^b   Collard, Harold R ^b   Duggal, Abhijit ^b   Galvin, Liam ^b   Inoue, Yoshikazu ^b   Gisli Jenkins, R ^b   Johkoh, Takeshi ^b   Kazerooni, Ella A ^b   Kitaichi, Masanori ^b   Knight, Shandra L ^b   Mansour, George ^b   Nicholson, Andrew G ^b   Pipavath, Sudhakar N J ^b   Buendía Roldán, Ivette ^b   Selman, Moisés ^b   Travis, William D ^b   Walsh, Simon ^b   Wilson, Kevin C ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Interstitial lung disease; Pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EUROPE; JAPAN; LUNG; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; EUROPE; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; JAPAN; LATIN AMERICA; LUNG; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85052683250     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201807-1255ST     Document Type: Article

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