Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.

@article{Epler1988BronchiolitisOO,
  title={Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.},
  author={Gary R. Epler},
  journal={Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association},
  year={1988},
  volume={81 5},
  pages={
          311-2
        }
}
  • G. Epler
  • Published 1 June 1995
  • Medicine
  • Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association
Bronchiolar disorders can be divided into 2 general categories: (1) airway disorders (cellular bronchiolitis and obliterative bronchiolitis) and (2) parenchymal disorders (respiratory bronchiolitis-interstitial lung disease, which occurs in smokers and is treatable with smoking cessation or corticosteroid therapy, and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia, an inflammatory lung disease simultaneously involving the terminal bronchioles and alveoli). This article reviews the clinical… 
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Three characteristic clinical and imaging profiles in patients with idiopathic BOOP are distinguished: multiple patchy pneumonia, solitary pneumonia, and diffuse interstitial lung disease.
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A 39-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of bilateral chest pain and pulmonary infiltrates, and three months earlier, when pleuritic left precord...
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