Acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: tough to define; tougher to manage.

Eur Respir J

Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, Dept of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Published: May 2017

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