Clinical characteristics of diffuse panbronchiolitis.
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Diffuse panbronchiolitis.
Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is an idiopathic inflammatory disease, largely restricted to Japan, that is characterized by progressive suppurative and obstructive airway disease, which, if left untreated, progresses to bronchiectasis, respiratory failure, and death. The lesion was first described in the early 1960s. In 1969 the name diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) was proposed to distinguish it...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1738-3536,2005-6184
DOI: 10.4046/trd.1992.39.1.28