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SUBMITTER: Brass DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2647620 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brass David M DM Tomfohr John J Yang Ivana V IV Schwartz David A DA
Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society 20070101 1
Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia represents a broad category of lung disorders characterized by scarring or fibrosis of the lung accompanied by varying degrees of inflammation. A number of important hypotheses based on clinical observations have substantially contributed to our understanding of the pathogenesis of the most insidious and devastating of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, idiopathic interstitial fibrosis (IIF). Patients with IIF usually present late in the course of their ill ...[more]