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Diffuse lung diseases (view source)
Revision as of 00:00, 11 December 2011
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===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Thought to be advanced ''[[RBILD]]''. | *Thought to be advanced ''[[RBILD]]''. | ||
*Strong association with smoking.<ref name=Ref_WMSP93>{{Ref WMSP|93}}</ref> | |||
**Treatment: stop smoking. | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
Features: | Features: | ||
* | *Abundant brown pigmented airspace macrophages - ''smoker's macrophages'' - '''key feature'''. | ||
*Architecture preserved; "linear fibrosis". | *Architecture preserved; "linear fibrosis". | ||