Diffuse Panbronchiolitis. A Thin-Section CT Scoring System.
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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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عنوان ژورنال: The Kurume Medical Journal
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0023-5679,1881-2090
DOI: 10.2739/kurumemedj.43.63