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KMID : 0383820080650040328
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
2008 Volume.65 No. 4 p.328 ~ p.333
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Recurrent Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia with Fibrotic Lung Disease
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Kim Won-Jin
Choi Jeong-Hee
Park Yong-Bum
Cho Sung-Woo
Nam Eun-Suk
Mo Eun-Kyung
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Abstract
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Desquamative interstitial pneumonia is an uncommon form of interstitial lung diseases and it has a good prognosis
compared with other types of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. A 69-year old man was admitted to our hospital because of a 3-month history of dyspnea. The patient presented with hypoxemia. High-resolution computerized tomography of the patient showed ground glass opacity and traction bronchiectasis with subpleural early honeycombing on the both lung fields. The pathologic findings of the video-assisted thoracoscopy lung biopsy were compatible with desquamative interstitial pneumonia, and irregularly distributed interstitial fibrosis and inflammation were observed at the peripheral parenchyme. Oral predinsolone was started; his symptoms and chest x-ray were improved, and so he stopped taking the prednisolone. Ten months later, the desquamative interstitial pneumonia recurred. We report here on a case of recurrent desquamative interstitial pneumonia with fibrotic lung disease.
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KEYWORD
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Desquamative interstitial pneumonia, Recurrent, Fibrotic Lung disease
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