Clinical spectrum and prognostic factors of possible UIP pattern on high-resolution CT in patients who underwent surgical lung biopsy.
Yasuhiro KondohHiroyuki TaniguchiKensuke KataokaTaiki FurukawaAyumi ShintaniTomoyuki FujisawaTakafumi SudaMachiko AritaTomohisa BabaKazuya IchikadoYoshikazu InoueKazuma KishiTomoo KishabaOsamu NishiyamaTakashi OguraKeisuke TomiiSakae HommaPublished in: PloS one (2018)
About a half of patients with a possible UIP pattern on HRCT had diagnoses other than IPF, and patients with IPF had a worse mortality than those with an alternative diagnosis. We reaffirmed that multidisciplinary discussion is crucial in patients with possible UIP pattern on HRCT.