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Identification of Clinical Phenotypes in Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia with Pulmonary Emphysema.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2016
Sato Suguru, Tanino Yoshinori, Misa Kenichi, Fukuhara Naoko, Nikaido Takefumi, Uematsu Manabu, Fukuhara Atsuro, Wang Xintao, Ishida Takashi, Munakata Mitsuru
Abstract excerpt
Objective Since the term "combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema" (CPFE) was first proposed, the co-existence of pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary emphysema (PE) has drawn considerable attention. However, conflicting results on the clinical characteristics of patients with both pulmonary fibrosis and PE have been published because of the lack of an exact definition of CPFE. The goal of this study was thus to...
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