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The recognition that lung biopsy samples from some patients with idiopathic interstitial disease do not fit into any well-defined histological patterns of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia led to the proposal of the term nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP). This attitude accelerated the identification of a group of interstitial lung diseases that had more favorable prognosis then IPF and needed to be discerned from IPF but also from other IIPs. In recent literature, the term NSIP is used as a clinico-radiological-pathological (CRP) form of IIP (i.e., not only as a histological pattern with a variety of etiologies as it was used previously). NSIP has been subclassified based on the extent of cellularity and fibrosis with variable etiologic backgrounds that led to heterogeneous clinical outcome.
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(2006). Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia. In: Clinical Atlas of Interstitial Lung Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-326-0_8
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