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View larger version (24K): [in this window] [in a new window]   A 52-year-old man with no history of respiratory tract disease presented with dyspnea, a cough productive of copious viscid sputum, and an opacity in the right-lung base on the chest roentgenogram (Panel A). Symptoms had begun six months earlier and did not improve after several courses of antibiotic therapy. The initial evaluation was unrevealing and led to an open-lung biopsy. Histopathological examination revealed lipid pneumonia resulting from either exogenous lipid ingestion or endogenous lipid pneumonia due to bronchial obstruction. There was no history of the use or inhalation of exogenous lipids. The patient subsequently expectorated a large bronchial cast (Panel . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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Migden D. R., Studer S. M., Terry P. B.
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N Engl J Med 2002; 347:696, Aug 29, 2002. Correspondence

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