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interstitial lung diseases

diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLD), interstitial pulmonary diseases

Types

- drug-induced lung diseases
- environmental lung diseases and occupational lung diseases

- idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP)

- diffuse alveolar damage (DAD)

- chronic manifestations of systemic dysimmune syndromes (collagen vascular diseases and inflammatory bowel diseases)

- diffuse eosinophilic lung disease
- drug associated diffuse lung disease

- miscellaneous diffuse lung diseases

Lesional patterns

- diffuse lung diseases with granulomas

  • sarcoidosis
  • chronic berylliosis
  • hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveolitis)