Airway-centered interstitial fibrosis: etiology, clinical findings and prognosis

Airway-centered Interstitial Fibrosis (ACIF) is a common pathologic pattern observed in our practice.The objectives of this study are to describe the causes associated with ACIF in a large sample of patients and its effect on survival.A retrospective study in three centers of interstitial lung disease in São Paulo, between January of 1995 and December of 2012. The surgical lung biopsy specimens were reviewed by three pathologists. The clinical,...