• Clinics in chest medicine · Sep 2004

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    Interstitial lung disease in the patient who has connective tissue disease.

    • Charlie Strange and Kristin B Highland.
    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, 812 CSB, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. strangec@musc.edu
    • Clin. Chest Med. 2004 Sep 1; 25 (3): 549-59, vii.

    AbstractInterstitial lung disease is a common complication of many of the connective tissue diseases. Because the prognosis, degree of reversibility, and optimal therapy differs for each disease presentation, a thorough knowledge of the pulmonary presentations of each connective tissue disease is important. Additionally, the challenge of finding the patient who has occult connective tissue disease in an interstitial lung disease clinic is discussed.

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