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The Role of Open Lung Biopsy in the Management and Outcome of Patients With Diffuse Lung Disease  Mordechai R Kramer, Neville Berkman, Bella Mintz, Simon.

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1 The Role of Open Lung Biopsy in the Management and Outcome of Patients With Diffuse Lung Disease 
Mordechai R Kramer, Neville Berkman, Bella Mintz, Simon Godfrey, Milton Saute, Gail Amir  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages (January 1998) DOI: /S (97)

2 Fig. 1 (A) Algorithm for diagnosis of diffuse lung disease in patients without immunosuppression. Trial of steroids (∗) should be considered in patients with suspected clinical diagnosis of, eg, usual interstitial pneumonia, diffuse interstitial pneumonia, sarcoidosis, eosinophilic pneumonia, bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. (B) Algorithm for diagnosis of diffuse lung disease in immunocompromised patients. Prognosis (∗) is based on the underlying condition. (BAL = bronchoalveolar lavage; TBB = transbronchial biopsy.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (97) )


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