Desquamative interstitial pneumonia. Clinical, optic, ultrastructural, histo-immunoligical and enzymatic study of a case
Leclerc, J.P.; Maitre, F.; Zygelman, M.; Bessade, M.; Lamotte, M.; Chomette, G.; Roujeau, J.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 54(5-8): 285-294
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 211623 Document Number: 129345
The desquamative intersitial pneumonia is a rare, sometimes curable from of diffuse interstitial fibrosis. A clinical, optical and ultrastructural, immunochemical and histo-enzymologic study of one case proved the macrophage nature of the intra-alveolar cells and suggested in the histo-genesis an immunological mechanism depending on lymphocytes.