Interstitial Lung Disease in Scleroderma
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Interstitial lung disease in scleroderma
Pulmonary involvement is quite frequent in the development of progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS), a disease that affects the skin and internal organs and may present in various forms, especially as interstitial lung disease (ILD) or pulmonary hypertension (PH).(1) The incidence of pulmonary involvement varies depending on the population and on the methodology used for the diagnosis, reaching ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0889-857X
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2014.12.005