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Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 235-244 , March 2004

Serial chest CT findings in interstitial lung disease associated with polymyositis–dermatomyositis

Olivier Bonnefoy
- Department of Radiology, Hôpital du Haut Lévêque, Avenue de Magellan, 33604 Pessac, CHU Bordeaux, France
Gilbert Ferretti
- Department of Radiology, Hôpital Michallon, Grenoble, France
Olivier Calaque
- Department of Radiology, Hôpital Michallon, Grenoble, France
Max Coulomb
- Department of Radiology, Hôpital Michallon, Grenoble, France
Hugues Begueret
- Department of Cyto-Pathology, Hôpital du Haut Lévêque, Bordeaux, France
Marie Beylot-Barry
- Department of Dermatology, Hôpital du Haut Lévêque, Bordeaux, France
François Laurent
- Department of Radiology, Hôpital du Haut Lévêque, Avenue de Magellan, 33604 Pessac, CHU Bordeaux, France
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +33-5-57-656542; fax: +33-5-57-656880.

Received 16 December 2002 ,Revised 14 March 2003 ,Accepted 17 March 2003.

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