Medical lung diseases
The medical lung diseases are a huge topic. Most pathologists have little to do with 'em. They are the domain of respirology. An introduction to lung pathology is in the lung article, along with a general approach. Interstitial lung disease is dealt with in the diffuse lung diseases article.
Infectious pneumonia
Includes:
Asthma
- Cytopathology: Asthma in pulmonary cytopathology
General
- The bread and butter of respirology.
- May be associated with atopy (allergies), medications (e.g. NSAIDs), occupational exposures.[1]
Pathogenesis
- T-cell response TH2 dominant.
Sequence:[2]
- Antigen TH2 lymphocyte -> IgE B-cell -> mast cell IgE Fc -> leukotrienes + other mediators -> bronchospasm, edema, leukocyte recruitment -> airway remodeling.
Gross
- Lung over-inflation.
- Mucous plugs.
- Focal resorption atelectasis,[3] i.e. collapse.
Microscopic
Features:[4]
- Edema.
- Mucous (plugs).
- +/-Smooth muscle hypertrophy.
- +/-Inflammation - especially with eosinophils.
- +/-Charcot-Leyden crystals (formed from eosinophil granules -- breakdown product).
- Sharp edge, diamond shaped, pink on H&E.
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Notes:
- Leyden in Charcot-Leyden is also seen written as Leiden.
- Finding associated with hypereosinophilia[5] - not pathognomonic for asthma.
- Pulmonary cytopathology:
DDx:
- Infection - fungal.
Stains
Features - crystals:
- PAS-D -ve.
- GMS -ve.
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BRONCHIAL CAST, RIGHT LOWER LOBE, REMOVAL: - CHARCOT-LEYDEN CRYSTALS. - CELLULAR DEBRIS WITH NEUTROPHILS AND ABUNDANT EOSINOPHILS. - RESPIRATORY MUCOSA WITH PROMINENT SMOOTH MUSCLE. - NEGATIVE FOR MALIGNANCY. COMMENT: GMS and PAS-D stains are negative for fungal organisms. The findings are non-specific; however, they would be compatible with asthma. Clinical and microbiological correlation is required.
Emphysema
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, abbreviated COPD, redirects here.
General
- Usually due to smoking.
- Often lumped together with chronic bronchitis and called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).[8]
Causes of emphysema other than smoking:[9]
Pathologic classification
Based on morphology:[10]
- Centriacinar (centrilobular) emphysema - associated with heavy smoking.
- Panacinar (panlobular) emphysema - associated with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
- Distal (paraseptal) acinar emphysema - associated with spontaneous pneumothorax.
- Irregular emphysema - usu. insignificant.
- Q. Why does smoking lead to centriacinar emphysema?
- A. The bad stuff from smoking gets enters the acinus at the centre; ergo, this is the location of the most damage.
Gross
- Holes (blebs, bullae), usually upper lung field predominant.
- Lungs may overlap the heart.[11]
Notes:
Microscopic
Features:[11]
- Large alveoli.
- Thin septa (no interstitial thickening).
Image:
Chronic bronchitis
General
- Often seen together with emphysema with which it is lumped together with in the term COPD.
- It's a clinical diagnosis - criteria:[1]
- Cough with sputum for thee months in at least two consecutive years.
- No other cause identified.
Clinical:[1]
- Blue bloater (carbon dioxide retainers)
- Develop cor pulmonale.
Microscopic
Features:[1]
- Mucous gland hypertrophy + mucinous secretions in airway.
- Goblet cell metaplasia.
- Bronchiolar inflammation and fibrosis.
Pulmonary edema
General
- Seen in a number of conditions, e.g. congestive heart failure.
Gross
Features - autopsy:
- Bubbles - when squeezed (due to surfactant).
- Heavy.
Microscopic
Features:[14]
- Dilated capillaries.
- Blood in airspace, focal.
- Plasma proteins in airspace - light pink acellular junk.
- +/-Hemosiderin-laden macrophages (known as heart failure cells in this context).
DDx:
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.
- Pulmonary hemorrhage - abundant blood.
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Bronchiectasis
General
- Benign.
- Uncommon.
- Predisposes for infection.[15]
- Usually a mixed flora.
- May be predominantly fungal, e.g. allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA).
- Multitude of causes - including:
- Cystic fibrosis - typically diffusely involvement, unlike other causes.[16]
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia.
Gross
- Large airways at the periphery of the lung.
- Central airways larger than the adjacent arteries.
- Typically focal.
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Radiologic:
- Central airways larger than the adjacent arteries.
- Airway wall-thickening.[17]
- "Tree-in-bud" abnormalities.
Microscopic
Features:
- Dilated airways.
- Airways larger than arteries.
Image:
Pulmonary hemorrhage
General
- Many causes.
A few causes:
- Trauma.
- Acute bronchopneumonia.
- Lung cancer, e.g. lung adenocarcinoma.
- Pulmonary hypertension.
- Infection, e.g. tuberculosis.
- Bronchiectasis.
Pulmonary hemorrhage syndromes:[18]
- Goodpasture syndrome.
- Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis.
- Vasculitis-associated hemorrhage (hypersensitivity angiitis, Wegener's granulomatosis).
- Systemic lupus erythematosus.
Radiology
- Airspace opacity.
Microscopic
Features:
- Red blood cells in the airspaces.
DDx:
- Decomposition.
Constrictive bronchiolitis
- AKA bronchiolitis obliterans, AKA obliterative broncholitis,[19] AKA bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS).[20]
General
- Not the same as (idiopathic) bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) - in short:
- BOOP: clogs the airway, has Masson bodies, treated with steroids - good prognosis.
- Constrictive bronchiolitis: fibrosis around airways, crappy prognosis.
- No good treatment.
- Progressive.
Etiology/associations:[19]
- Post-infectious.
- Viral, e.g. Adenovirus.
- Mycoplasma.
- Post-lung transplant.[21]
- Post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Associated with GVHD.[21]
- Connective tissue disease, mostly rheumatoid arthritis.
- Ulcerative colitis.
- Drugs - penicillamine.
- Toxins.
- Idiopathic.
Microscopic
Features:[19]
- Bronchiolitis - mononuclear and neutrophilic.
- May be minimal late in the disease.
- Fibrosis - submucosal and peribronchiolar.
- Can be patchy.
Notes:
- Bronchioles = noncartilagenous airways usu. < 2 mm in diameter.[19]
Images:
Stains
- Elastic trichrome - useful for delineation of obliterated bronchioles.
Diffuse lung diseases
These are also known as idiopathic interstitial pneumonias.
Fibrosis
Histomorphological classification
- Hyaline membranes - glassy pink material lining airways & alveoli.
- Microscopic honeycombing - "holes" in the lung.
- Bronchiolization - ciliated (respiratory) epithelium in distal airway.
- Uniform alveolar septal thickening - septae look similar at low power.
- Peripheral lobular fibrosis - septae thickening peripheral, HRCT shows: irregular peripheral reticular opacities.[22]
- Reticular = net-like.[23]
- Siderophages in alveoli - macrophages with hemosiderin the alveoli.
- Fibrinous pleuritis - peripheral only (based on imaging).
- Granulomata, non-necrotizing.
- Abundance of vacuolated cells.
- Chronic inflammation.
- Bronchiolocentric scarring - fibrosis concentrated around airway/assoc. with airway.
Radiologic/gross pathologic DDx by location
Causes of lower lung fibrosis BAD RASH:[24]
- Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP).
- Asbestosis.
- Drugs (nitrofurantoin, hydralazine, isoniazid (INH), amiodarone).
- Rheumatologic disease.
- Aspiration.
- Scleroderma.
- Hamman-Rich syndrome (really should be -- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis).
Note:
- Hamman-Rich syndrome is another name for acute interstitial pneumonia.[25]
Causes of upper lung fibrosis FASSTEN:[24]
- Farmer's lung.
- Ankylosing spondylitis.
- Sarcoidosis.
- Silicosis.
- Tuberculosis (miliary).
- Eosinophilic granuloma.
- Neurofibromatosis.
Prognosis
- The pattern and severity of fibrosis seems to be the most important factors prognostically - more important than the underlying cause (ILD, CVD, drug reaction etc.).[26][27]
Patterns of fibrosis:
- "Linear" - follows alveolar walls, no architectural distortion.
- UIP-like (honeycombing).
Disease with fibrosis
There are many of 'em.
Fibrosing pleuritis
General
- Benign.
Microscopic
Features:[28]
- Fibrosis.
- Spindle cells.
- Moderate cellularity.
- No necrosis.
DDx:[29]
- Mesothelioma, desmoplastic.
- Mesothelioma should not be diagnosed on core biopsy.[28]
Lymphocytic lesions of the lung
Diagnosis | Key histologic feature | Radiology | Other diagnostic |
---|---|---|---|
Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia | interstitial lymphoid cells, usu. no nodules | interstitial pattern | |
Follicular bronchiolitis/bronchitis | lymphoid cell around bronchioles / bronchus, normal parenchyma | interstitial pattern | |
Nodular lymphoid hyperplasia | abundant lymphoid cells in nodules | nodules /interstitial pattern | stains to exclude lymphoma; germinal centres do not exclude lymphoma |
Lymphoma (BALToma) | abundant lymphoid cells usu. in nodules | nodules / interstitial pattern | may require stains to prove, germinal centres may be present |
Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia
Follicular bronchitis/bronchiolitis
General
- Similar to lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP).
- Overlaps with LIP.[30]
- Associated with the things seen in LIP;[31] however, associations may be less clear in children.[32]
Gross/radiology
- No distinct nodule or mass.
- Classically: increased reticular marking, i.e. interstitial pattern.
Images: Intersitial pattern - radiographs (ucsf.edu).
Microscopic
Features:[33]
- Peribronchiolar/peribronchial lymphoid nodules with:
- Reactive germinal centres.
- Lack of these should raise suspicion for lymphoma.
- Plasma cells.
- Reactive germinal centres.
- +/-Lymphoid nodules in the interlobular septa.
Notes:
- Lung parenchyma distant from nodule = normal; no lymphocytic infiltrate.
DDx:
- Lymphoma, specifically MALTomas/BALTomas.
- Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia.
- Nodular lymphoid hyperplasia.
- This is determined in part by radiology; it has nodules radiographically.
Pulmonary nodular lymphoid hyperplasia
General
- Definition - reactive lymphoid cells.
Gross/radiology
- Has nodules radiographically.
Microscopic
Features:[33]
- Reactive lymphoid nodules.
Notes:[34]
- Presence of germinal centres do not exclude lymphoma - may still be a BALToma.
- BALT = bronchial/bronchus associated lymphoid tissue.
DDx:
- Lymphoma, specifically MALTomas/BALTomas.
- Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia.
- Follicular bronchiolitis.
Smoking associated disease
- RB = respiratory bronchiolitis.
- RBILD = respiratory bronchiolitis interstitial lung disease.
- DIP = desquamative interstitial pneumonia.
- Eosinophilic granuloma (of lung) - AKA pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis.
All of the above are assoc. with smoking. RBILD & DIP are considered by many to be on a continuum, i.e. RBILD is early DIP.
Respiratory bronchiolitis
- Diagnosis is based on clinical criteria.
Microscopic
Features:
- Inflammation.
- No interstitial lung disease, i.e. no fibrosis.
Respiratory bronchiolitis interstitial lung disease
Desquamative interstitial pneumonia
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- AKA eosinophilic granuloma of the lung.
General
- Associated with smoking.[35]
- Not associated with systemic diseases of Langerhans cells (AKA Hand-Schueller-Christian disease).
Subtypes:[35]
- Cellular form.
- Fibrotic form.
One form usually predominates.
Radiology
- Upper lung zones.
Microscopic
Features:[36]
- Cellular peribronchiolar nodules with:
- Langerhans cells - key feature:
- Pale staining nucleus (H&E) with nuclear infolding - "crumpled tissue paper" appearance.
- +/-Smoker's macrophages (brown pigmented airspace macrophages).
- +/-Eosinophilia (may be rare) - significantly narrow DDx.
- Chronic inflammatory cells (lymphocytes). (???)
- Langerhans cells - key feature:
Images:
IHC
- Langerhans cells: S100+ and CD1a+.[36]
Granulomatous lung disease
- See: Granulomas for an introduction to the general topic.
Most common:
- Infectious - mycobacterial and fungal.[37]
Noninfectious causes:[37]
- Aspiration pneumonia.
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
- Hot tub lung.
- Talc granulomatosis.
- Sarcoidosis.
- Wegener granulomatosis.
Sarcoidosis
General
- Diagnosis of exclusion - infection must be excluded.
- Radiologic differential diagnosis includes carcinomatosis.[38]
Microscopic
Features:
- Granulomata, well-formed, non-necrotizing.
Image(s):
Pulmonary talcosis
General
- Associated with herion use.[39]
- Seen in drug users that intravenously inject crushed pills intended to be taken PO.[40]
- X-ray findings similar to asbestosis.
Microscopic
Features:
- Granulomas with foreign material.
- Foreign material often polarizes.
Images:
Miscellaneous diseases
Pneumoconioses
Pneumocytoma
General
Epidemiology
- Female in 40s.[44]
- Considered benign; excision is curative.
- Rare case reports of metastases.
Gross
- Peripheral, solitary.
- Well-circumscribed.
Microscopic
Features:[44]
- Mixed cell population.
- Variable architecture:
- Papillary.
- Sclerotic.
- Solid.
- Hemorrhagic.
- +/-Granulomas.
DDx:[45]
- Papillary adenoma.
- Neuroendocrine tumour (carcinoid).
Image:
IHC
Features:[47]
- EMA +ve.
- PR +ve.[43]
Negative stains:[47]
- SMA -ve.
- CEA -ve.
- CD34 -ve.
- S100 -ve.
- Chromogranin A -ve.
Others:[42]
- TTF-1 +ve.
- HNF-3 alpha +ve.
- HNF-3 beta +ve.
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- Abbreviated LAM.
- AKA lymphangiomyomatosis.
General
- Clinical: dyspnea, recurrent pneumothorax.
- May be an indication for lung transplantation.
- Non-neoplastic muscle proliferation vs. tumour that can metastasize.[48]
Notes:
- Considered to be a PEComa.
Epidemiology
- Associated with angiomyolipomas.[49]
- Associated with tuberous sclerosis[49] - abnormality in same gene (TSC2).
- Usually affects women - primarily in childbearing years; case reports of LAM in men - usu. with TSC.[50]
- Rare.
Radiology
- Bullae/thin walled cysts - distributed in all lung fields.
- Lymphadenopathy.
Radiologic DDx (of cysts):
- Eosinophilic granuloma (assoc. with smoking).
- Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis (UIP).
- Emphysema.
Microscopic
Features:[51]
- Spindle cells with small nuclei + larger epithelioid cells with clear cytoplasm and round nuclei.
- Cyst formation.
- Thick arterial walls.
Images:
IHC
- HMB-45 +ve.
- ER +ve.
- PR +ve.
- SMA +ve.
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Abbreviated PAP.
General
- Associated with smoking - particularily in men.[52]
Pathophysiology:
- GM-CSF (granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor) signaling in macrophages/lack of GM-CSF.
- GM-CSF is required by alveolar macrophages to clear surfactant.
Classification:[52]
- Congenital:
- Abnormal surfactant.
- GM-CSF receptor defect.
- Secondary:
- Infections.
- Haematologic malignancy.
- Acquired:
- Dusts - interfere with macrophage function.
Clinical:
- Dyspnea & cough - gradual onset.
Radiology
- CXR: airspace disease.
- HRCT: "crazy paving" - see: http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/figsonly/23/6/1509.
Microscopic
Features:
- Crap in the alveoli:
- "Dense bodies" - dead macrophages ("Chatter" in the alveoli).
- Edema - has pink stuff in the alveoli like PAP but no dense bodies.
DDx - may mimic:[53]
- Pulmonary edema.
- Pneumocystis pneumonia - exudates foamy & vacuolated.
- Pulmonary hemorrhage (acute). (???)
Images:
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Images of DDx:
Diffuse panbronchiolitis
- Abbreviated DPB.
General
- Rare lung disease predominantly found among asians.[55]
- Has been likened to cystic fibrosis - but doesn't really share any features with it.
Gross
Features:[55]
- Bronchiectasis.
- Hyperinflation.
- Small nodules (~2-3 mm) around the small airways.
- Diffuse involvement of both lungs.
Microscopic
Features:[55]
- Transmural inflammation of bronchioles - esp. respiratory bronchioles.
- Lymphocytes, plasma cells, histiocytes.
- Neutrophils within the airway.
Images:
Pulmonary amyloidosis
General
- Rare.[56]
Microscopic
Features:
- Interstitial cotton candy-like material - see amyloidosis.
DDx:
Images:
Drug reactions
- Effects are often non-specific.
Website: http://www.pneumotox.com
Pulmonary hypertension
General classification:
- Primary, i.e. primary pulmonary hypertension, or
- Secondary, e.g. due to congenital heart disease (like ventricular septal defect), interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.
Non-secondary pulmonary hypertension
Causes:[57]
- Primary pulmonary hypertension.
- Pulmonary embolic disease (thromboembolism, and non-thrombotic embolism).
- Pulmonary capillary haemangiomatosis (PCH).
- Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD).
Severity
- Heath-Edwards classification - see pulmonary hypertension.
Eosinophilic pneumonia
Specific entities:[58]
- Churg-Strauss syndrome.
- Acute eosinophilic pneumonia.
- Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.
- Eosinophilic granuloma (pulmonary histiocytosis X, Langerhans cell granulomatosis).
Entities which may have eosinophilia as prominent feature:
- AIDS.
- Lymphoma.
- Collagen vascular disease.
Churg-Strauss syndrome
Microscopic
Features:
- Small vessel vasculitis.
- Abundant eosinophils.
- Granulomas.
Eosinophilic pleural effusions
Causes - mnemonic I'M PAID:[60]
- Infection, e.g. tuberculosis.
- Malignancy - uncommon.
- Pulmonary emboli.
- Asbestos exposure.
- Inflammatory diseases.
- Drug reactions.
Lung transplant pathology
This subspecialty is dealt with in its own article.
See also
References
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