Proposed method of histological separation between connective tissue disease-associated interstitial pneumonia and idiopathic interstitial pneumonias.
Mutsumi OzasaHiromi IchikawaShuntaro SatoTomonori TanakaTakeshi JohkohKensuke KataokaYasuhiko YamanoYasuhiro KondohHideki NakamuraAtsushi KawakamiAndrey BychkovHiroyuki TaniguchiJunya FukuokaPublished in: PloS one (2018)
We identified histological markers and derived a practical formula and user-friendly app to distinguish CTD-IPs from IIP.