Difference between revisions of "Desquamative interstitial pneumonia"
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==Microscopic== | ==Microscopic== | ||
Features:<ref name=pmid20854463>{{Cite journal | last1 = Tazelaar | first1 = HD. | last2 = Wright | first2 = JL. | last3 = Churg | first3 = A. | title = Desquamative interstitial pneumonia. | journal = Histopathology | volume = 58 | issue = 4 | pages = 509-16 | month = Mar | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2010.03649.x | PMID = 20854463 }}</ref> | Features:<ref name=pmid20854463>{{Cite journal | last1 = Tazelaar | first1 = HD. | last2 = Wright | first2 = JL. | last3 = Churg | first3 = A. | title = Desquamative interstitial pneumonia. | journal = Histopathology | volume = 58 | issue = 4 | pages = 509-16 | month = Mar | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2010.03649.x | PMID = 20854463 }}</ref> | ||
*Abundant | *Abundant airspace macrophages - usually with brown pigment (so called ''smoker's macrophages'') - '''key feature'''. | ||
*Interstitial inflammation ''or'' interstitial fibrosis with a preserved architecture - so called "linear fibrosis". | *Interstitial inflammation ''or'' interstitial fibrosis with a preserved architecture - so called "linear fibrosis". | ||