PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA: ETIOLOGIC FACTORS AND CLINICAL FORMS
Authors: D W RICHARDS
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Article1 December 1960PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA: ETIOLOGIC FACTORS AND CLINICAL FORMSDICKINSON W. RICHARDS, M. D., F.A.C.P.DICKINSON W. RICHARDS, M. D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-6-1105 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptResearch during the last decade in the anatomic, physiologic and clinical features of pulmonary emphysema has brought, among other things, an increased interest in and need for a more satisfactory classification of this disease. But this is difficult. No one thus far has offered a convincing unitary hypothesis for the pathogenesis of emphysema, and the descriptions of the disease by the pathologists, physiologists and clinicians are still in somewhat different languages, and do not readily fit together. 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Y.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dickinson W. Richards, M.D., Director, First Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, 462 First Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. 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