British Thoracic Society study of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: current presentation and initial management
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prognosis. Physicians generally considered CFA to be a clinical diagnosis and Background – Mortality due to cryptodid not initiate treatment in up to half of genic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA) is inpatients at presentation. creasing, particularly in the elderly. (Thorax 1997;52:38–44) Optimum management remains uncertain and previous studies of the disease have
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INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE British Thoracic Society Study on cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: response to treatment and survival
Robin M Rudd, Robin J Prescott, J C Chalmers, Ian D A Johnston, for the Fibrosing Alveolitis Subcommittee of the Research Committee of the British Thoracic Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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تاریخ انتشار 1998