Do High-Resolution CT Findings of Usual Interstitial Pneumonitis Obviate Lung Biopsy?

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2002 • 3,947 citations

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2000 • 2,535 citations

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1997 • 2,113 citations

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1999 • 1,976 citations

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2001 • 688 citations

Histopathologic Variability in Usual and Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonias

2001 • 652 citations

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

2003 • 615 citations

Utility of a Lung Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

2001 • 553 citations

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2002 • 440 citations

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1989 • 422 citations

The Accuracy of the Clinical Diagnosis of New-Onset Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Other Interstitial Lung Disease

1999 • 402 citations

Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias: Diagnostic Accuracy of Thin-Section CT in 129 Patients

1999 • 355 citations

Radiologic Findings Are Strongly Associated With a Pathologic Diagnosis of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia

2003 • 316 citations

Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia and Usual Interstitial Pneumonia: Comparative Appearances at and Diagnostic Accuracy of Thin-Section CT

2001 • 309 citations

Chronic diffuse interstitial lung disease: diagnostic value of chest radiography and high-resolution CT.

1991 • 302 citations

Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia: Variable Appearance at High-Resolution Chest CT

2000 • 225 citations

Comparison of transbronchial and open biopsies in chronic infiltrative lung diseases.

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Diffuse lung disease: diagnostic accuracy of CT in patients undergoing surgical biopsy of the lung.

1997 • 187 citations

HRCT diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung disease: inter-observer variation

2004 • 184 citations

Comparative accuracy of high resolution computed tomography and chest radiography in the diagnosis of chronic diffuse infiltrative lung disease

1991 • 176 citations

High-resolution CT of benign asbestos-related diseases: clinical and radiographic correlation

1988 • 170 citations

Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia: Correlation between Thin-Section CT Findings and Pathologic Subgroups in 55 Patients

2002 • 149 citations

Chronic Cystic Lung Disease: Diagnostic Accuracy of High-Resolution CT in 92 Patients

2003 • 147 citations

Accuracy of high-resolution CT in diagnosing lung diseases.

1998 • 141 citations

High-Resolution CT Quantification of Bronchiectasis: Clinical and Functional Correlation

2002 • 126 citations

The Sensitivity of High-Resolution CT in Detecting Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Proved by Open Lung Biopsy

1995 • 124 citations

Interstitial lung disease: a diagnostic approach. Are CT scan and lung biopsy indicated in every patient?

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Computed Tomography in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

1989 • 112 citations

CT of interstitial lung disease: a diagnostic approach

1987 • 110 citations

Diagnostic Invasive Procedures in Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Diseases

2004 • 101 citations

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1992 • 78 citations

Detection and differential diagnosis of pulmonary infections and tumors in patients with AIDS: value of chest radiography versus CT.

1996 • 73 citations

Physician explanations for failing to comply with "best practices".

2001 • 71 citations

Diagnostic Imaging of Diffuse Infiltrative Disease of the Lung

2004 • 57 citations

Videothoracoscopic lung biopsy in diffuse infiltrative lung diseases: a 5-year surgical experience

1998 • 54 citations

Serial Evaluation of High-Resolution Computed Tomography Findings in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia

2002 • 52 citations

HIGH-RESOLUTION CT OF DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE

2001 • 31 citations

HIGH-RESOLUTION CT OF IDIOPATHIC INTERESTITIAL PNEUMONIAS

2001 • 30 citations

Potential Limitations of Clinical Criteria for the Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis/Cryptogenic Fibrosing Alveolitis

2004 • 22 citations

Utility of High-Resolution CT for Management of Diffuse Lung Disease

2003 • 18 citations

Lung biopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung disease.

2001 • 18 citations

Current indications for high resolution computed tomography scanning of the lungs

1995 • 16 citations

Availability, Requesting Practices, and Barriers to Referral for High-Resolution CT of the Lungs

2002 • 10 citations

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2003 • 10 citations