Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: consideration of a clinicopathological entity in a series of Japanese patients

BACKGROUND: Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a recently reported group of disorders characterized by fibrotic thickening of the pleural and subpleural parenchyma predominantly in the upper lobes. We report five Japanese cases fulfilling the criteria of IPPFE and address whether...

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Autores principales: Kusagaya, Hideki, Nakamura, Yutaro, Kono, Masato, Kaida, Yusuke, Kuroishi, Shigeki, Enomoto, Noriyuki, Fujisawa, Tomoyuki, Koshimizu, Naoki, Yokomura, Koshi, Inui, Naoki, Suda, Takafumi, Colby, Thomas V, Chida, Kingo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23216996
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-12-72

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