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Please can you explain how lungs become scarred ?
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Multiple causes: Causes include chronic lung infections, certain arthritis like lupus/rheumatoid arthritis/scleroderma etc /certain medications and idiopathic ( unknown) cause.
Answered 6/18/2018
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