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Selected ReportsBronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia: An Unusual Cause of Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
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CASE REPORT
The patient was a 54-year-old man, 80 pack-year smoker. He was working for a heating factory with mild exposure to copper fumes, hydrochloric acid, and sodium hydroxide. He was a usual cougher.
In the month prior to the hospital admission, he began a progressive nocturnal cough with production of sputa initially rusty and finally hemoptoic. He also suffered from malaise, asthenia, anorexia, and pleuritic, right flank pain without fever. Physical findings were absolutely unremarkable when he was
DISCISSION
In 1983, Epler and coworkers,6 recognizing the diversity of the causes of bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), proposed the following clinical classification: (1) secondary to toxic fumes; (2) after infectious diseases; (3) associated with connective tissue processes; (4) secondary to localized lesions; and (5) idiopathic BOOP. Soon after, they better described BOOP as a subset of patients with BO without apparent cause or associated diseases, a pathologically well-defined pattern, and a good
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Pathology-radiology correlation of common and uncommon computed tomographic patterns of organizing pneumonia
2018, Human PathologyCitation Excerpt :Approximately 50% of nodular OP lesions contain air bronchograms, pleural tags, pleural or interlobular septal thickening, and parenchymal bands. The differential diagnosis includes lymphoma, multicentric adenocarcinoma, and invasive fungal infection in immunocompromised patients [23,24]. Perilobular thickening outlines affected pulmonary lobules, often with peripheral arcade-like polygonal opacities (Fig. 15A), correlating with accumulation of organizing exudate in the peripheral lobular alveoli with or without interlobular septal thickening [25].
Prognostic value of clinical, morphologic, and immunohistochemical factors in patients with bronchiolitis obliterans-organizing pneumonia
2013, Human PathologyCitation Excerpt :True hybrid cases of either BOOP and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia or BOOP and hypersensitivity pneumonitis have been described [15,16]. Focal pneumonias, especially those cases as a consequence of an aspiration [17-19], may be indistinguishable from BOOP, particularly if it affects the apicoposterior segment of the upper lobe [20]. Only the presence of definite foreign body reaction may help with the differential diagnosis [8].
Cryptogenic organising pneumonia
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