My approach to interstitial lung disease using clinical, radiological and histopathological patterns
OPEN ACCESS- 1Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- 2Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; leslie.kevin@mayo.edu
- Professor K O Leslie, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA; leslie.kevin{at}mayo.edu
- Accepted 9 December 2008
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.
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‣ An additional table is published online only at http://jcp.bmj.com/content/vol62/issue5
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Competing interests: None.
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