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- Title
Update on Pulmonary Fibrosis.
- Authors
Smith, Maxwell L.
- Abstract
Context.--Three distinct patterns of pulmonary fibrosis, including usual interstitial pneumonia, fibrotic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, and airway-centered fibrosis, can be identified on surgical lung biopsies. Objectives.--To compare the pathologic definitions, clinical and radiographic presentations, etiologies and differential diagnoses, treatments, and prognoses of usual interstitial pneumonia, fibrotic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, and airway-centered fibrosis patterns, and to address the challenges and controversies related to pulmonary fibrosis. Data Sources.--Data were derived from published literature and clinical experience. Conclusions.--Although there may be overlap, identification of the dominant form of fibrosis in a particular case can provide a general category of disease and assist in identifying an etiology.
- Subjects
PULMONARY fibrosis treatment; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; LUNGS; PULMONARY fibrosis; SYMPTOMS; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2016, Vol 140, Issue 3, p221
- ISSN
0003-9985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5858/arpa.2015-0288-SA