Respiratory bronchiolitis associated with interstitial lung disease and desquamative interstitial pneumonia.
This article explores issues of the diagnosis and management of respiratory bronchiolitis, respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease, and desquamative interstitial pneumonia. These three diseases have common and overlapping features and sometimes are viewed as a continuum of smoking-induced disease, rather than as distinct and separate entities.
Davies
Gary
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Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, Fulham, London, SW3 6NP, UK.
Wells
Athol U
AU
du Bois
Ron M
RM
D001988:Bronchiolitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D018893:Bronchoalveolar Lavage; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed