TY - BOOK AU - Haidi Abdallah Abuhussein AU - Dawlat Elmiligy , AU - Laila Ahmed Rashed , AU - Mohamed Wafai Zakaria , TI - Serum surfactant protein D as a prognostic factor idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Haidi Abdallah Abuhussein , KW - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis KW - Pulmonary fibrosis KW - Pulmonary surfactant N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical Biochemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is defined as aspecific form of chronic fibrosing interstitial pneumonia that is limited to the lung and associated with the histological appearance of UIP on a surgical lung biopsy . The diagnosis of IPF can only be made after the exclusion of other known causes of interstitial lung disease such as drug toxicities environmental exposures and collagen vascular diseases ER -