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View larger version (49K): [in this window] [in a new window]   A 45-year-old woman with a history of cigarette smoking presented with pneumonia. A chest radiograph confirmed the presence of consolidation of the right upper lung. Her symptoms resolved with antibiotic therapy, and she had normal findings on fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Subsequent chest radiography demonstrated slowly resolving, confluent opacities in the right and left lung fields (Panel A). A high-resolution computed tomographic scan of the thorax confirmed the presence of widespread, dense consolidation in the right upper lobe (Panel B), with smaller areas of peribronchovascular subsegmental consolidation throughout both lung fields. A transbronchial biopsy led to the diagnosis of bronchoalveolar-cell carcinoma. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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