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High-resolution CT features distinguishing usual interstitial pneumonia pattern in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis from those with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Radiologic diagnosis of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) presenting a usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern is challenging. The aim of this study was to identify the high-resolution CT (HRCT) fi...
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Open AccessDiagnostic yield and risk/benefit analysis of trans-bronchial lung cryobiopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung diseases: a large cohort of 699 patients
Standardization of trans-bronchial lung cryobiopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung diseases is imminent; however, the majority of published series on cryobiopsy include a limited number of patients and are charact...
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Pathologic Considerations in Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
Transbronchial cryobiopsies are large enough to allow pattern recognition similar to surgical lung biopsies in a significant proportion of patients with diffuse parenchymal lung disease. In this chapter we bri...
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Open AccessFrom “traction bronchiectasis” to honeycombing in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A spectrum of bronchiolar remodeling also in radiology?
The diagnostic and prognostic impact of traction bronchiectasis on high resolution CT scan (HRCT) in patients suspected to have idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is increasing significantly.
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Open AccessRelationship between fibroblastic foci profusion and high resolution CT morphology in fibrotic lung disease
Fibroblastic foci profusion on histopathology and severity of traction bronchiectasis on highresolution computed tomography (HRCT) have been shown to be predictors of mortality in patients with idiopathic pulm...
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Pathology of Sarcoidosis
Pathologists are frequently involved in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis on conventional biopsies or examining bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and assisting bronchoscopists when performing bronchial or transbronchial...
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Open AccessIdiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: consideration of a clinicopathological entity in a series of Japanese patients
Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a recently reported group of disorders characterized by fibrotic thickening of the pleural and subpleural parenchyma predominantly in the upper lobes. We ...
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Open AccessTransbronchial biopsy is useful in predicting UIP pattern
Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP), is a necessary feature pathologically or radiologically for the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The predictive value of transbronchial biopsy (TBB) in iden...
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Pathology of the Airways
The pathology of the bronchi and bronchioles is reviewed and illustrated.
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Pulmonary Hemangiomas of Infancy and Childhood: Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature
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Lymphoproliferative Diseases
Lymphoreticular diseases affecting the lung include primary and secondary lymphomas and related disorders, leukemias, and a number of lesions that are generally considered benign and hyperplastic processes. Ps...
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Lymphoproliferative Diseases
Lymphoreticular diseases affecting the lung include primary and secondary lymphomas and related disorders, leukemias, and a number of lesions that are generally considered benign and hyperplastic processes. Ps...
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Common Pathways and Patterns of Injury
Pulmonary diseases often affect the lung parenchyma in a relatively specific and predictable distribution. In addition, a striking or predominant histopathologic feature (e.g., nonnecrotizing granulomas in sar...
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Bronchiolitis Obliterans with Organizing Pneumonia and Constrictive Bronchiolitis: Comparative Analysis of Two Distinct Entities
The term bronchiolitis obliterans has been used to refer to a broad range of clinicopathologic entities.1 Bronchiolitis obliterans has been used in the clinical literature to refer to a pathologically heterogeneo...
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The Histologic Diagnosis of Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis and Its Differential Diagnosis
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (EAA) is a term that encompasses a large number of pulmonary hypersensitivity reactions to organic antigens from occupational and avocational exposures. Schleuter1 attributes the fir...
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Lymphoproliferative Diseases
This chapter presents the lymphoreticular diseases affecting the lung, including primary and secondary lymphomas, leukemias, and a number of lesions that are generally considered benign and hyperplastic proces...
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Pitfalls in the diagnosis and classification of Hodgkin’s disease: Surgical pathology and classification for the 1980’s
Compared to the controversies surrounding the pathologic classification of the non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, the pathologic classification of Hodgkin’s disease (HD) has produced barely a murmur of discontent. Perha...
