[A 47-year-old patient with longstanding nicotine abuse, increasing dyspnea on exertion and lower and peripheral lung predominant ground-glass opacities].
The causal relationship between cigarette smoking and a number of interstitial lung diseases continues to evolve. These "smoking-related interstitial lung diseases" (SR-ILD) are a heterogeneous group of entities which have overlapping imaging findings and which can coexist. The presented case of a patient with smoking history and pulmonary ground-glass opacities demonstrates that thorough knowledge of the various manifestations of SR-ILD is essential for a confident diagnosis.
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Institut für Röntgendiagnostik, Klinikum der Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Deutschland. heiss.peter@web.de
Kundel
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Schulz
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Feuerbach
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Hamer
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009538:Nicotine / Q000633:toxicity*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
D009538:Nicotine