Non-infectious and unusual infectious mimics of community-acquired pneumonia
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Non-infectious mimics of community-acquired pneumonia
A broad spectrum of diseases and clinical syndromes can masquerade as community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Many such disorders, such as hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP), bronchiolitis obliterans--organizing pneumonia (BOOP), reactions to drugs or exogenous agents, systemic vasculitis, and alveolar hemorrhage (AH; pulmonary-renal) syndromes, are immune-media...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2003.12.006