Interstitial Lung Diseases in Small Lung Biopsies

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Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) Bronchiolitis obliterans interstitial pneumonia (BIP) Desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia (LIP) Giant cell interstitial pneumonia (GIP) Later, Katzenstein and Askin refined this classification and…

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Principles of Imaging Lung Disease

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Fig. 2.1 Airspace disease due to bacterial pneumonia. (a) Frontal chest radiograph reveals poorly defined lower lobe consolidation (C) with air bronchograms (arrow) and no volume loss indicating an airspace-filling…

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Airspace-Occupying Diseases

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Fig 4.1 Low magnification view of the fibrinopurulent exudate in the alveolar space with thickening of the interalveolar septa in (a). A higher magnification of the same pattern shows the…

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Types of Biopsies

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Fig. 3.1 Low-magnification view of a transbronchial biopsy (left, a) and a cryobiopsy (right, b) for comparison. Notice also the lost tissue from the center of the biopsy due to…

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Benign Tumors of the Lung in Small Lung Biopsies

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Fig. 7.1 Granular cell tumor with polygonal cells, granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, and uniform small nuclei is usually located under the bronchial mucosa within the endobronchial wall Parenchymatous Tumors While most…

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Small Sample Lung Biopsy Techniques in the Diagnosis of Airway and Parenchymal Lung Diseases

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Endobronchial tumors • Malignant • Carcinoid tumors • Hamartomas Infectious and other endobronchial diseases • Mycoplasma and viral • Endobronchial tuberculosis • Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis • Bronchocentric granulomatosis • Sarcoidosis…

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