Bronchoalveolar lavage and response to cyclophosphamide in scleroderma interstitial lung disease.

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Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on September 27, 2007

Authors

Charlie Strange1, Marcy B Bolster, Michael D Roth, Richard M Silver, Arthur Theodore, Jonathan Goldin, Philip Clements, Joanie Chung, Robert M Elashoff, Robert Suh, Edwin A Smith, Daniel E Furst, Donald P Tashkin, Scleroderma Lung Study Research Group

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, MUSC, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, 812 CSB, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. strangec@musc.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Scleroderma Lung Disease (SLS) | NCT00004563

NCT 00000456

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