Clinical spectrum and prognostic factors of possible UIP pattern on high-resolution CT in patients who underwent surgical lung biopsy.

Few studies have reported the diagnostic variability in patients with a possible usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern on high-resolution CT (HRCT) who underwent surgical lung biopsy (SLB), and the prognostic factors for these patients have not been fully evaluated. We retrospectively investiga...

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Main Authors: Yasuhiro Kondoh, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Kensuke Kataoka, Taiki Furukawa, Ayumi Shintani, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Takafumi Suda, Machiko Arita, Tomohisa Baba, Kazuya Ichikado, Yoshikazu Inoue, Kazuma Kishi, Tomoo Kishaba, Osamu Nishiyama, Takashi Ogura, Keisuke Tomii, Sakae Homma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5873997?pdf=render