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Radiographic bilateral cavitary lesions in lipoid pneumonia
J Casademont1, A Xaubet, J López-Guillermo
1Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
The European Respiratory Journal
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
We report a case of lipoid pneumonia with pulmonary bilateral cavitated lesions. The diagnosis was based on the finding of abundant lipid-laden alveolar macrophages in bronchoalveolar lavage and the presence of histologic changes indicative of lipoid pneumonia in transbronchial lung biopsy.