title: [Diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases with special reference to children].
abstract: An increase in the number of children with interstitial lung diseases observed over the last twelve months has prompted us to review the clinical and diagnostic aspects of this condition. Our aim is to increase the awareness of the fact that these diseases occur in childhood too where they are not diagnosed often enough, mainly because the necessary lung function tests are rarely done. Pulmonary disorders resulting from systemic diseases often improve with treatment of the underlying problem, but sometimes failure to improve cannot be detected because pulmonary function tests are not done. The presented not broad aetiologic spectrum of interstitial lung diseases shows that only the lung specialist, but also internists and paediatricians in all subspecialties should know about these entities, to avoid their being diagnosed by a specialist only when fibrosis has developed.
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authors.lastname: Roeser
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008176:Lung Volume Measurements; D008297:Male; D011653:Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio
vernacular_title: Diagnostik interstitieller Lungenerkrankungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kindesalters.