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. 1970 Jul;25(4):504–507. doi: 10.1136/thx.25.4.504

Fibrosing alveolitis and polymyositis

Peter L Thompson 1, Ian R Mackay 1
PMCID: PMC472182  PMID: 5485012

Abstract

A case of fibrosing alveolitis and polymyositis is described. We think that this, in association with previously published reports, favours a real and not fortuitous association. The basis for the association may be an abnormality of immunity, but this could not be established in the present case nor from those previously published.

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