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==Pulmonary hemorrhage==
==Pulmonary hemorrhage==
===General===
{{Main|Pulmonary hemorrhage}}
*Many causes.
 
A few causes:
*Trauma.
*Acute [[bronchopneumonia]].
*Lung cancer, e.g. [[lung adenocarcinoma]].
*[[Pulmonary hypertension]].
*Infection, e.g. [[tuberculosis]].
*[[Bronchiectasis]].
 
Pulmonary hemorrhage syndromes:<ref name=Ref_PBoD745>{{Ref PBoD|745}}</ref>
*[[Goodpasture syndrome]].
*[[Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis]].
*Vasculitis-associated hemorrhage (hypersensitivity angiitis, [[Wegener's granulomatosis]]).
*[[Systemic lupus erythematosus]].
 
===Radiology===
*Airspace opacity.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:
*[[Red blood cell]]s in the airspaces - abundant.
*+/-Siderophages (hemosiderin-laden macrophages).
**Can count (distinct) granules (unlike in ''[[smoker's macrophages]]'').
 
DDx:
*Decomposition.


==Constrictive bronchiolitis==  
==Constrictive bronchiolitis==  
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