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[Update on non-specific interstitial pneumonia: a pattern, a clinical entity or different phenotypes? Surgical or bronchoscopic diagnosis?].
Recenti progressi in medicina - 1 Dec 2009
Romagnoli Micaela, Poletti Venerino
Abstract excerpt
Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) was initially defined in 1994 as a histopathologic pattern, characterized by the presence of varying proportions of lung interstitial inflammation and fibrosis, with a temporally uniform lung involvement, that can be found in the presence of a wide variety of clinical and radiologic contexts. Idiopathic NSIP, considered as a "provisional clinical diagnosis" until...
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