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→Usual interstitial pneumonia: +asbestosis
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*Disease worse distant from large airways: lower lung field predominance, typically worse at periphery of lobule and lung.<ref>AC UBC S.103.</ref> | *Disease worse distant from large airways: lower lung field predominance, typically worse at periphery of lobule and lung.<ref>AC UBC S.103.</ref> | ||
*Heterogeneity of inflammation: airspace macrophages & inflammation minimal in honeycombed foci. | *Heterogeneity of inflammation: airspace macrophages & inflammation minimal in honeycombed foci. | ||
====Asbestosis==== | |||
*Histologic appearance as for UIP -- plus ''ferruginous bodies''. | |||
*Important to diagnose... asbestosis = compensation. | |||
Image(s): | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferruginous_body.jpg Ferruginous bodies (WC)]. | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asbestosis_high_mag.jpg Asbestosis (WC)]. | |||
==Non-specific interstitial pneumonia== | ==Non-specific interstitial pneumonia== | ||