title: Interstitial lung disease pattern turned out to be a predominantly lepidic lung adenocarcinoma.
abstract: We report a case of a 46-year-old woman without any medical history who presented to our Respiratory Department with exertional dyspnoea for the last 6 weeks associated with non-productive cough. Chest radiography showed bilateral diffuse interstitial opacity. Bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial biopsies performed during flexible bronchoscopy as a step in the diagnostic workup of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia showed cells of pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Sdr Boulevard 17, 5000 Odense, Denmark.
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hammen