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Studies from University of Bologna Have Provided New Data on Pneumonia

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 30th, 2011

2011 AUG 30 -- According to the authors of recent research from Bologna, Italy, "We assessed the prevalence of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in a cohort of smokers included in a lung cancer screening trial. Two observers independently reviewed, for the presence of findings consistent with ILD, the computed tomography (CT) examinations of 692 heavy smokers recruited by the Multicentric Italian Lung Detection (MILD) trial."

"Four CT patterns were considered: usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP), other chronic interstitial pneumonia (OCIP), respiratory bronchiolitis (RB) and indeterminate. Subsequently, the evolution of ILD in those subjects who had undergone...

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