Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. An unusual cause of solitary pulmonary nodule
Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a pulmonary disorder with a wide spectrum of radiologic features. Usually, these are bilateral, patchy, alveolar, or ground-glass infiltrates, but other presentations have also been described. We present a case in which the radiologic appearanc...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Chest 1993-05, Vol.103 (5), p.1621-1623 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a pulmonary disorder with a wide spectrum of radiologic features.
Usually, these are bilateral, patchy, alveolar, or ground-glass infiltrates, but other presentations have also been described.
We present a case in which the radiologic appearance was a cavitated pulmonary solitary nodule. We think that this finding
may justify the inclusion of BOOP in the differential diagnosis of the pulmonary solitary nodule. |
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ISSN: | 0012-3692 1931-3543 |
DOI: | 10.1378/chest.103.5.1621 |