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Imaging Features of Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
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Case 5-2023: A 67-Year-Old Man with Interstitial Lung Disease, Fever, and Myalgias
Hemal N Sampat1, Amita Sharma1, E Zachary Nussbaum1
1From the Departments of Medicine (H.N.S., E.Z.N.), Pediatrics (H.N.S.), Radiology (A.S.), and Pathology (E.Z.N.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine (H.N.S., E.Z.N.), Radiology (A.S.), and Pathology (E.Z.N.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.
The New England Journal of Medicine
|February 15, 2023
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