Usual interstitial pneumonia-pattern fibrosis in surgical lung biopsies. Clinical, radiological and histopathological clues to aetiology
Pulmonary fibrosis in surgical lung biopsies is said to have a ‘usual interstitial pneumonia-pattern’ (UIP-pattern) of disease when scarring of the parenchyma is present in a patchy, ‘temporally heterogeneous’ distribution. These biopsies are one of the more common non-neoplastic specimens surgical...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3786616/ |