title: My approach to interstitial lung disease using clinical, radiological and histopathological patterns.
abstract: The complex world of interstitial lung disease presents nearly insurmountable challenges to the general surgical pathologist faced with a lung biopsy in this setting. The pathology is often inflammatory and always requires clinical and radiological context for a relevant and clinically useful histopathological diagnosis. A pattern-based histopathological approach to interstitial lung disease provides a "map" for the general pathologist to navigate this area successfully, especially so when used with aid of the clinical and radiological patterns of presentation.
authors.affiliation: Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA. leslie.kevin@mayo.edu
authors.forename: K O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Leslie
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D055371:Acute Lung Injury / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography