HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN THE EVALUATION OF FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS

Akira, 1997, CT findings during phase of accelerated deterioration in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 168, 79, 10.2214/ajr.168.1.8976924 Akira, 1993, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Progression of honeycombing at thin-section CT, Radiology, 189, 687, 10.1148/radiology.189.3.8080483 American Thoracic Society Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Statement Committee, 1999, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, Am J Respir Crit Care Med Askin, 1993, Acute interstitial pneumonia: Histopathologic patterns of acute lung injury and the Hamman-Rich syndrome revisited, Radiology, 188, 620, 10.1148/radiology.188.3.8351322 Bergin, 1990, Mediastinal lymph node enlargement on CT scans in patients with usual interstitial pneumonitis, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 154, 251, 10.2214/ajr.154.2.2105008 Bergin, 1985, CT in the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 145, 505, 10.2214/ajr.145.3.505 Bergin, 1989, Chronic lung diseases: Specific diagnosis by using CT, Am J Roentgenol, 152, 1183, 10.2214/ajr.152.6.1183 Bhalla, 1993, Chest CT in patients with scleroderma: Prevalence of asymptomatic esophageal dilatation and mediastinal lymphadenopathy, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 161, 269, 10.2214/ajr.161.2.8333359 Bjoraker, 1998, Prognostic significance of histopathologic subsets in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 157, 199, 10.1164/ajrccm.157.1.9704130 Carrington, 1978, Natural history and treated course of usual and desquamative interstitial pneumonia, N Engl J Med, 298, 801, 10.1056/NEJM197804132981501 Chan, 1997, Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and the fibrosing alveolitis of systemic sclerosis: Morphological differences on computed tomographic scans, Thorax, 52, 265, 10.1136/thx.52.3.265 Chinet, 1990, Effects of inflammation and fibrosis on pulmonary function in diffuse lung fibrosis, Thorax, 45, 675, 10.1136/thx.45.9.675 Collins, 1994, Observer variation in pattern type and extent of disease in fibrosing alveolitis on thin section computed tomography and chest radiography, Clin Radiol, 49, 236, 10.1016/S0009-9260(05)81847-1 Corrin, 1989, Pathology of interstitial lung disease, 149 Coxson, 1997, Quantification of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using computed tomography and histology, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 155, 1649, 10.1164/ajrccm.155.5.9154871 Delorme, 1997, Usual interstitial pneumonia. Quantitative assessment of high-resolution computed tomography findings by computer-assisted texture-based image analysis, Invest Radiol, 32, 566, 10.1097/00004424-199709000-00009 Doherty, 1997, Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis with preserved lung volumes, Thorax, 52, 998, 10.1136/thx.52.11.998 Du Bois, 1994, Diffuse lung disease: An approach to management, BMJ, 309, 175, 10.1136/bmj.309.6948.175 Franquet, 1998, Mediastinal lymphadenopathy in cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: The effect of steroid therapy on the prevalence of nodal enlargement, Clin Radiol, 53, 435, 10.1016/S0009-9260(98)80272-9 Fulmer, 1979, Morphologic-physiologic correlates of the severity of fibrosis and degree of cellularity in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, J Clin Invest, 63, 665, 10.1172/JCI109349 Gamsu, 1995, CT quantification of interstitial fibrosis in patients with asbestosis: A comparison of two methods, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 164, 63, 10.2214/ajr.164.1.7998570 Garber, 1992, Enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes in the fibrosing alveolitis of systemic sclerosis, Br J Radiol, 66, 983, 10.1259/0007-1285-65-779-983 Gay, 1998, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Predicting response to therapy and survival, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 157, 1063, 10.1164/ajrccm.157.4.9703022 Grenier, 1994, Chronic diffuse infiltrative lung disease: Determination of the diagnostic value of clinical data, chest radiography, and CT and Bayesian analysis, Radiology, 191, 383, 10.1148/radiology.191.2.8153310 Hamman, 1944, Acute diffuse interstitial fibrosis of the lungs, Bulletin of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 74, 177 Harrison, 1989, Histopathology of intersitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis (SS): Comparison with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and implications for pathogenesis, Thorax, 44, 346 Hartley, 1994, High-resolution CT-derived measures of lung density are valid indexes of intersitial lung disease, J Appl Physiol, 76, 271, 10.1152/jappl.1994.76.1.271 Hartman, 1996, Disease progression in usual intersitial pneumonia compared with desquamative interstitial pneumonia: Assessment with serial CT Disease progression in usual interstitial pneumonia compared with desquamative interstitial pneumonia. Assessment with serial CT, Chest, 110, 378, 10.1378/chest.110.2.378 Hartman, 1993, Desquamative interstitial pneumonia: Thin-section CT findings in 22 patients, Radiology, 187, 787, 10.1148/radiology.187.3.8497631 Hartman, 1998, Non-specific interstitial pneumonitis variable appearance on high-resolution CT scans of the chest, Radiology, 209, 178 Howard, 1990, Clinical usefulness of bronchoalveolar lavage, Eur Respir J, 3, 377, 10.1183/09031936.93.03030377 Ikezoe, 1996, High-resolution CT findings of lung disease in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis, J Thorac Imag, 11, 250, 10.1097/00005382-199623000-00002 Johkoh, 1996, High-resolution CT findings of lung disease in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis, J Thorac Imag, 11, 250, 10.1097/00005382-199623000-00002 Johkoh, 1994, High-resolution CT and pulmonary function tests in collagen vascular disease: Comparison with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Eur J Radiol, 18, 113, 10.1016/0720-048X(94)90276-3 Johnston, 1997, British Thoracic Society study of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: Current presentation and initial management. Fibrosing Alveolitis Subcommittee of the Research Committee of the British Thoracic Society, Thorax, 52, 38, 10.1136/thx.52.1.38 Johnston, 1993, The management of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis in three regions of the United Kingdom, Eur Respir J, 6, 891, 10.1183/09031936.93.06060891 Katzenstein, 1990, Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia/idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 58 Katzenstein, 1998, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Clinical relevance of pathologic classification, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 157, 1301, 10.1164/ajrccm.157.4.9707039 Katzenstein, 1994, Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia/fibrosis: Histologic features and clinical significance, Am J Surg Pathol, 18, 136, 10.1097/00000478-199402000-00003 Katzenstein, 1986, Acute interstitial pneumonia: A clinicopathologic, ultrastructural, and cell kinetic study, Am J Surg Pathol, 10, 256, 10.1097/00000478-198604000-00004 Kazerooni, 1997, Thin-section CT obtained at 10-mm increments versus limited three-level thin-section CT for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Correlation with pathologic scoring, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 169, 977, 10.2214/ajr.169.4.9308447 Lang, 1994, Collagen content of alveolar wall tissue in emphysematous and non-emphysematous lungs, Thorax, 49, 319, 10.1136/thx.49.4.319 Lee, 1998, Usual interstitial pneumonia: Relationship between disease activity and the progression of honeycombing at thin-section computed tomography, J Thorac Imag, 13, 199, 10.1097/00005382-199807000-00007 Leung, 1993, Parenchymal opacification in chronic infiltrative lung diseases: CT-pathologic correlation, Radiology, 188, 209, 10.1148/radiology.188.1.8511299 Liebow, 1975, Definition and classification of interstitial pneumonias in human pathology, Progress in Respiratory Research, 8, 1, 10.1159/000398285 Liebow, 1965, Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis, Am J Med, 39, 369, 10.1016/0002-9343(65)90206-8 Lung and Asthma Agency. Factsheet. Factsheet Jan:1, 1997. Lynch, 1996, Ground glass attenuation on CT in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Chest, 110, 312, 10.1378/chest.110.2.312 Lynch, 1995, Can CT distinguish hypersensitivity pneumonitis from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 4, 807, 10.2214/ajr.165.4.7676971 Martinez, 1990, Intrathoracic lymphadenopathy. A rare manifestation of rheumatoid pulmonary disease, Chest, 97, 1010, 10.1378/chest.97.4.1010 Mathieson, 1989, Chronic diffuse infiltrative lung disease: Comparison of diagnostic accuracy of CT and chest radiography, Radiology, 171, 111, 10.1148/radiology.171.1.2928513 Mayo, 1991, High resolution computed tomography: Technical aspects, Radiol Clin North Am, 29, 1043 Mayo, 1987, High-resolution CT of the lungs: An optimal approach, Radiology, 163, 507, 10.1148/radiology.163.2.3562834 McAdams, 1996, The alphabet soup revisited: The chronic intersitial pneumonias in the 1990s, Radiographics, 16, 1009, 10.1148/radiographics.16.5.8888388 McDonagh, 1994, High resolution computed tomography of the lungs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and interstitial lung disease, Br J Rheumatol, 33, 118, 10.1093/rheumatology/33.2.118 Mino, 1995, Serial changes of cystic air spaces in fibrosing alveolitis: A CT-pathological study, Clin Radiol, 50, 357, 10.1016/S0009-9260(05)83131-9 Mino, 1997, Pulmonary involvement in polymyositis and dermatomyositis: Sequential evaluation with CT, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 169, 83, 10.2214/ajr.169.1.9207505 Müller, 1997, Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias: High-resolution CT and histologic findings, Radiographics, 17, 1016, 10.1148/radiographics.17.4.9225401 Müller, 1986, Fibrosing alveolitis: CT pathologic correlation, Radiology, 160, 585, 10.1148/radiology.160.3.3737898 Müller, 1987, Disease activity in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: CT and pathologic correlation, Radiology, 165, 731, 10.1148/radiology.165.3.3685351 Murata, 1988, Optimization of computed tomography technique to demonstrate the fine structure of the lung, Invest Radiol, 23, 170, 10.1097/00004424-198803000-00003 Naidich, 1985, Computed tomography of the pulmonary parenchyma. Part 1: Distal air-space disease, J Thorac Imag, 1, 39, 10.1097/00005382-198512000-00007 Niimi, 1996, CT of chronic infiltrative lung disease: Prevalence of mediastinal lymphadenopathy, J Comput Assist Tomogr, 20, 305, 10.1097/00004728-199603000-00026 Nishimura, 1993, The diagnostic accuracy of high-resolution computed tomography in diffuse infiltrative lung diseases, Chest, 104, 1149, 10.1378/chest.104.4.1149 Nishimura, 1992, Usual interstitial pneumonia: Histologic correlation with high-resolution CT, Radiology, 182, 337, 10.1148/radiology.182.2.1732946 Padley, 1991, Comparative accuracy of high resolution computed tomography and chest radiography in the diagnosis of chronic diffuse infiltrative lung disease, Clin Radiol, 44, 227, 10.1016/S0009-9260(05)80183-7 Padley, 1996, Pulmonary sarcoidosis mimicking cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis on CT, Clin Radiol, 51, 807, 10.1016/S0009-9260(96)80011-0 Panos, 1990, Clinical deterioration in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Causes and assessment, Am J Med, 88, 396, 10.1016/0002-9343(90)90495-Y Park, 1995, Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia with fibrosis: Radiographic and CT findings in seven patients, Radiology, 195, 645, 10.1148/radiology.195.3.7753988 Patchefsky, 1973, Desquamative interstitial pneumonia: Relationship to interstitial fibrosis, Thorax, 28, 680, 10.1136/thx.28.6.680 Primack, 1993, End-stage lung disease: CT findings in 61 patients, Radiology, 189, 661, 10.1148/radiology.189.3.8234691 Primack, 1993, Acute interstitial pneumonia: Radiographic and CT findings in nine patients, Radiology, 188, 817, 10.1148/radiology.188.3.8351354 Raghu, 1995, Interstitial lung disease: A diagnostic approach, Are CT and lung biopsy indicated in every patient? Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 151, 909, 10.1164/ajrccm/151.3_Pt_1.909 Remy-Jardin, 1993, Importance of ground-glass attenuation in chronic diffuse infiltrative lung disease: Pathologic-CT correlation, Radiology, 189, 693, 10.1148/radiology.189.3.8234692 Remy-Jardin, 1994, Lung changes in rheumatoid arthritis: CT findings, Radiology, 193, 375, 10.1148/radiology.193.2.7972746 Reynolds, 1998, Diagnostic and management strategies for diffuse interstitial lung disease, Chest, 113, 192, 10.1378/chest.113.1.192 Rodriguez, 1995, Automated discrimination and quantification of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis from normal lung parenchyma using generalized fractal dimensions in high-resolution computed tomography images, Acad Radiol, 2, 10, 10.1016/S1076-6332(05)80240-5 Sampson, 1992, The prevalence of enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes in asbestos-exposed individuals: A CT study, Clin Radiol, 45, 340, 10.1016/S0009-9260(05)80089-3 Scadding, 1960, Chronic diffuse interstitial fibrosis of the lungs, BMJ, 1, 443, 10.1136/bmj.1.5171.443 Scadding, 1967, Diffuse fibrosing alveolitis (diffuse interstitial fibrosis of the lungs): Correlation of histology at biopsy with prognosis, Thorax, 22, 291, 10.1136/thx.22.4.291 Snider, 1985, The definition of emphysema. Report of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Lung Diseases workshop, Am Rev Respir Dis, 132, 182 Strickland, 1993, Cause of regional ventilation-perfusion mismatching in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A combined CT and scintigraphic study, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 161, 719, 10.2214/ajr.161.4.8372745 Tazelaar, 1990, Interstitial lung disease in polymyositis and dermatomyositis: Clinical features and prognosis as correlated with histologic findings, Am Rev Respir Dis, 141, 727, 10.1164/ajrccm/141.3.727 Terriff, 1992, Fibrosing alveolitis: Chest radiography and CT as predictors of clinical and functional impairment at follow-up in 26 patients, Radiology, 184, 445, 10.1148/radiology.184.2.1620845 Tonelli, 1997, HRCT evident fibrosis in isolated pulmonary emphysema, J Comput Assist Tomogr, 21, 322, 10.1097/00004728-199703000-00031 Tubbs, 1977, Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis: Cellular phase of fibrosing alveolitis, Chest, 72, 159, 10.1378/chest.72.2.159 Tung, 1993, Accuracy of the typical computed tomographic appearances of fibrosing alveolitis, Thorax, 48, 334, 10.1136/thx.48.4.334 Turner-Warwick, 1980, Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: Clinical features and their influence on survival, Thorax, 35, 171, 10.1136/thx.35.3.171 van der Bruggen-Bogaarts, 1995, Radiation exposure in standard and high-resolution chest CT scans, Chest, 107, 113, 10.1378/chest.107.1.113 Volpe, 1997, High-resolution CT of the lung: Determination of the usefulness of CT scans obtained with the patient prone based on plain radiographic findings, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 169, 369, 10.2214/ajr.169.2.9242737 Watters, 1986, A clinical radiographic and physiologic scoring system for the longitudinal assessment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Am Rev Respir Dis, 133, 97, 10.1164/arrd.1986.133.1.97 Wechsler, 1996, The relationship of thoracic lymphadenopathy to pulmonary interstitial disease in diffuse and limited systemic sclerosis: CT findings, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 167, 101, 10.2214/ajr.167.1.8659350 Wells, 1994, Fibrosing alveolitis associated with systemic sclerosis has a better prognosis than lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 149, 1583, 10.1164/ajrccm.149.6.8004317 Wells, 1992, High resolution computed tomography assessment of disease activity in the fibrosing alveolitis of systemic sclerosis: A histopathological correlation, Thorax, 47, 738, 10.1136/thx.47.9.738 Wells, 1993, Clearance of inhaled 99mTcDTPA predicts the clinical course of fibrosing alveolitis, Eur Respir J, 6, 797 Wells, 1998, Bronchoalveolar lavage cellularity: Lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis compared with the fibrosing alveolitis of systemic sclerosis, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 157, 1474, 10.1164/ajrccm.157.5.9609096 Wells, 1993, The clinical utility of thin section computed tomography in the detection of changes in disease severity in fibrosing alveolitis, Am Rev Respir Dis, 147, 593 Wells, 1997, Functional impairment in lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and fibrosing alveolitis associated with systemic sclerosis: A comparison, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 155, 1657, 10.1164/ajrccm.155.5.9154872 Wells, 1993, The predictive value of thin-section computed tomography in fibrosing alveolitis, Am Rev Respir Dis, 148, 1076, 10.1164/ajrccm/148.4_Pt_1.1076 Wells, 1997, Lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: A functional-morphologic correlation based on extent of disease on thin-section computed tomography, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 155, 1367, 10.1164/ajrccm.155.4.9105081 Wells, 1993, Serial CT in fibrosing alveolitis: Prognostic significance of the initial pattern, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 161, 1159, 10.2214/ajr.161.6.8249719 Wells, 1997, Functional impairment in fibrosing alveolitis: Relationship to reversible disease on thin section computed tomography, Eur Respir J, 10, 280, 10.1183/09031936.97.10020280 Wiggins, 1990, Combined cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and emphysema: The value of high resolution computed tomography in assessment, Respir Med, 84, 365, 10.1016/S0954-6111(08)80070-4 Winterbauer, 1978, Diffuse interstitial pneumonitis: Clinicopathologic correlations in 20 patients treated with prednisone/azathioprine, Am J Med, 65, 661, 10.1016/0002-9343(78)90855-0 Wollmer, 1987, Measurement of lung density by X-ray computed tomography: Relation to lung mechanics in workers exposed to asbestos cement, Chest, 91, 865, 10.1378/chest.91.6.865 Zerhouni, 1985, Computed tomography of the pulmonary parenchyma. Part 2: Interstitial disease, J Thorac Imag, 1, 54, 10.1097/00005382-198512000-00008 Zompatori, 1997, Course of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis of the Wells grade III at presentation. Study using high-resolution computerized tomography, Radiol Med, 94, 611