Comparison between cryptogenic organizing pneumonia and connective tissue disease-related organizing pneumonia
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Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia.
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia is a rare, distinct disorder that is sufficiently different from the other diseases in the group of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias to be designated as a separate entity. In its most typical presentation, it is characterized by dyspnea and cough, with multiple patchy alveolar opacities on pulmonary imaging. Definite diagnosis is obtained by the finding of bud...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1462-0332,1462-0324
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq410