New Entities in Smoking Related Lung Disease
New Entities in Smoking Related Lung Disease
New Entities in Smoking Related Lung Disease
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Overlap with other diseases<br />
• Smok<strong>in</strong>g related diseases<br />
– Desquamative <strong>in</strong>terstitial pneumonia<br />
• Smoker’s macrophages with<strong>in</strong> airspaces<br />
• Clues on the CT scan<br />
– Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis<br />
• Bronchiolocentric disease<br />
• Cysts and nodules on CT<br />
• Langerhans cell <strong>in</strong>filtrate<br />
• Fibr<strong>in</strong>ous organiz<strong>in</strong>g pneumonia<br />
• Plugs of fibr<strong>in</strong>, but lacks eos<strong>in</strong>ophils<br />
5/28/2011<br />
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