Smoking-related Interstitial Lung Disease
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Smoking-related interstitial lung disease.
BACKGROUND Smoking-related interstitial lung diseases (SR-ILDs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases with major clinical significance. Reliable epidemiological data are not yet available. METHOD Review of pertinent literature retrieved by a selective search in PubMed. RESULTS The available data on many aspects of SR-ILDs are sparse, but recent studies on the pathophysiology and targeted tr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Pulmonary Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1068-0640
DOI: 10.1097/cpm.0000000000000150