肺纤维症的定义广义地说,它是由于肺的急性或慢性炎症,造成肺的纤维增生而形成的一种不可逆性肺部病变。可是在临床上,做出病理形态学诊断有时是不可能的,只能根据种种临床所见进行诊断。日本人中村对本症所给予的定义是:与肺的纤维化一起,作为其结果而引起的各种临床症状、胸部X线改变以及肺功能异常等,是为肺纤维症。最近DeRemee等又就81例所 Definition of Pulmonary Fibrosis Broadly speaking, it is an irreversible pulmonary disease that results from the acute or chronic inflammation of the lung, resulting in fibrosis of the lungs. However, in clinical practice, it is sometimes impossible to make pathological diagnosis, which can only be diagnosed based on various clinical findings. Japanese Nakamura given this disease is defined as: with pulmonary fibrosis, as a result of the various clinical symptoms caused by chest X-ray changes and pulmonary dysfunction, etc., is a pulmonary fibrosis. Recently, DeRemee and so on in 81 cases