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Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia in collagen vascular diseases: comparison of the clinical characteristics and prognostic significance with usual interstitial pneumonia.

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2003

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Yutaro Nakamura, Kingo Chida, T. Suda, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Masatoshi Iwata, Shiro Imokawa, Tomoyoshi Tsuchiya, Masaaki Ida, Hitoshi Gemma, Kazumasa Yasuda,
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Abstract

These results suggest that NSIP is more common histologic pattern than UIP in IP-CVD and, unlike in IIP, the prognosis of NSIP patients may not be different from that of UIP patients in IP-CVD.