LBX1 and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: HOXB7, a member of the homeobox (<i>Hox</i>) gene family, has been found involved in various cancers.<h4>Methods</h4>Immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis was run on lung tissue samples from surgical lung biopsy (SLB) of 19 patients with IPF, retrospectively selected from the IPF database of the University Hospital of Modena.