IMPROVEMENT of diagnostic criteria during recent years has allowed the separation of several distinct entities from the large group of nonspecific diffuse lung diseases. One of the most recently ...

RILD in NHL patients presents as lung disease, organizing pneumonia, and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, with 179 pathogenic microorganisms identified. The study systematically characterized RILD ...

Histologic (and gross) recognition of the anatomic distribution of the lesion correlates well with the radiologic distribution as seen with HRCT, and equivalencies can be developed ( Table 2-3, Table ...

THE patient with a chest roentgenogram showing persisting diffuse infiltrations often presents a difficult diagnostic problem. The x-ray picture and the usual complaint of dyspnea are nonspecific.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Usual interstitial pneumonia was a common finding in lung biopsies of people evaluated for post-COVID-19 ...

Bilateral interstitial pneumonia is a serious infection that can inflame and scar your lungs. It's one of many types of interstitial lung diseases, which affect the tissue around the tiny air sacs in ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc), also referred to as scleroderma, is a rare autoimmune disease associated with vasculopathy, inflammation, and fibrosis of the skin and/or internal organs. Interstitial lung ...

A variety of pathologic specimens may be obtained from the lung to evaluate non-neoplastic disorders ( Table 2-2). By bronchoscopy one may obtain transbronchial or endobronchial biopsies. Surgical ...