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Imaging Features of Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease

Published on: June 16, 2020

Novel biomarker of fibrosis in SSc-ILD

Margaret B Allison1, Nikos Efthimiou2,3, Iris Y Zhou2,3

  • 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA mballison@mgb.org.

RMD Open
|June 23, 2026
PubMed
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Keywords:
BiomarkersConnective Tissue DiseasesLung Diseases, InterstitialPulmonary FibrosisScleroderma, Systemic

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