The New England journal of medicine, 2011-03, Vol.364 (10), p.968-970
2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Smoking and Subclinical Interstitial Lung Disease
- Ist Teil von
- The New England journal of medicine, 2011-03, Vol.364 (10), p.968-970
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Massachusetts Medical Society
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Quelle
- Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The relationships between cigarette smoking and heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are well known; in contrast, the topic of the relationship between smoking and interstitial lung disease is almost obscure. Despite its lack of a public persona, this relationship is important, since smoking plays a key role in the pathobiology of several interstitial lung diseases — respiratory bronchiolitis, desquamative interstitial pneumonia, pulmonary Langerhans'-cell histiocytosis, and perhaps idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 1 It is widely known that in asymptomatic smokers with normal lung function, chest radiography reveals the presence of interstitial opacities (also known as dirty lung). 2 The . . .
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0028-4793eISSN: 1533-4406DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1013966Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_856768390
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Age, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Disease, Humans, Lung - pathology, Lung diseases, Lung Diseases, Interstitial - diagnostic imaging, Lung Diseases, Interstitial - etiology, Lung Diseases, Interstitial - pathology, Lungs, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - etiology, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - pathology, Pulmonary Emphysema - diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Emphysema - etiology, Pulmonary Emphysema - pathology, Pulmonary Fibrosis - pathology, Radiography, Respiratory diseases, Smoking - adverse effects