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Diffuse alveolar damage.
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F1
A lung biopsy was performed, revealing anatomopathological findings of diffuse alveolar damage and inflammatory infiltrate consisting mainly of lymphocytes and thickening of interalveolar septa, suggesting idiopathic toxicity associated with drugs: so-called cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (fig. 1).
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Bilateral interstitial alveolar infiltrates (left). Bilateral pneumothorax, subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum (right).
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F2
An HRCT of the chest showed spread bilateral interstitial infiltrates on the peripheral parenchyma and ground-glass opacities (fig. 2), with areas of emphysema.
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Interstitial infiltrates on the peripheric parenchyma with ground-glass opacities.
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F3
An HRCT of the chest showed bilateral alveolar infiltrates, ground-glass opacities and thickening of interlobular septa, with a peripheral distribution predominating in the bases (fig. 3).