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  • Title: Respiratory bronchiolitis associated with interstitial lung disease.
    Author: Canessa PA, Pratticò L, Bancalari L, Fedeli F, Bacigalupo B, Silvano S.
    Journal: Monaldi Arch Chest Dis; 2004; 61(3):174-6. PubMed ID: 15679012.
    Abstract:
    Respiratory bronchiolitis associated with interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD), first described by Niewoehner et al in an autopsy study of cigarette smokers who died from non pulmonary causes in 1974, is a rare entity that should be distinguished from the other interstitial lung diseases and in particular from desquamative interstitial pneumonia, although the two conditions share a similar histopathological pattern. RB-ILD is clearly connected with tobacco smoking and has been inserted in the "smoking related interstitial lung diseases" together with DIP and Cell histiocytosis of Langerhans; it may also be associated with occupational exposure to machine fumes. The following is a case report of a patient with both smoking and occupational exposure.
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