B lymphocyte function in diffuse panbronchiolitis
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Diffuse panbronchiolitis.
Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is an idiopathic inflammatory disease, largely restricted to Japan, that is characterized by progressive suppurative and obstructive airway disease, which, if left untreated, progresses to bronchiectasis, respiratory failure, and death. The lesion was first described in the early 1960s. In 1969 the name diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) was proposed to distinguish it...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Clinical Immunology
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0911-4300,1349-7413
DOI: 10.2177/jsci.8.336