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==Usual interstitial pneumonia== | ==Usual interstitial pneumonia== | ||
*Abbreviated ''UIP''. | |||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*It is sometimes used incorrectly as a synoym for ''idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis''. | *It is sometimes used incorrectly as a synoym for ''idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis''. | ||
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====Epidemiology==== | ====Epidemiology==== | ||
*Disease of the old - rare in under 50 years old.<ref>AC UBC S.102.</ref> | *Disease of the old - rare in under 50 years old.<ref>AC UBC S.102.</ref> | ||
*Dismal prognosis - mean survival after diagnosis ~ 2.8 years.<ref name=pmid9445300/> | *Dismal prognosis - mean survival after diagnosis ~ 2.8 years.<ref name=pmid9445300>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bjoraker | first1 = JA. | last2 = Ryu | first2 = JH. | last3 = Edwin | first3 = MK. | last4 = Myers | first4 = JL. | last5 = Tazelaar | first5 = HD. | last6 = Schroeder | first6 = DR. | last7 = Offord | first7 = KP. | title = Prognostic significance of histopathologic subsets in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. | journal = Am J Respir Crit Care Med | volume = 157 | issue = 1 | pages = 199-203 | month = Jan | year = 1998 | doi = | PMID = 9445300 }}</ref> | ||
====Differential diagnosis==== | ====Differential diagnosis==== | ||
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*Chronic drug toxicity.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rossi SE, Erasmus JJ, McAdams HP, Sporn TA, Goodman PC |title=Pulmonary drug toxicity: radiologic and pathologic manifestations |journal=Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc |volume=20 |issue=5 |pages=1245-59 |year=2000 |pmid=10992015 |doi=}}</ref> | *Chronic drug toxicity.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rossi SE, Erasmus JJ, McAdams HP, Sporn TA, Goodman PC |title=Pulmonary drug toxicity: radiologic and pathologic manifestations |journal=Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc |volume=20 |issue=5 |pages=1245-59 |year=2000 |pmid=10992015 |doi=}}</ref> | ||
=== | ===Radiology=== | ||
*Honeycombing - ''multiple'' defects that obliterate the normal lung architecture - multiple spherical voids in the lung parenchyma; radiologically these are seen as lucencies.<ref>[http://www.medcyclopaedia.com/library/topics/volume_v_1/h/honeycombing.aspx http://www.medcyclopaedia.com/library/topics/volume_v_1/h/honeycombing.aspx]</ref> | *Honeycombing - ''multiple'' defects that obliterate the normal lung architecture - multiple spherical voids in the lung parenchyma; radiologically these are seen as lucencies.<ref>[http://www.medcyclopaedia.com/library/topics/volume_v_1/h/honeycombing.aspx http://www.medcyclopaedia.com/library/topics/volume_v_1/h/honeycombing.aspx]</ref> | ||
**Usually subplural, i.e. peripheral lung. | **Usually subplural, i.e. peripheral lung. | ||