1) Identify immunologic reactions to cigarette smoke in the lungs. 2) Describe the histopathologic features of smoking-related lung disease. 3) Illustrate the high-resolution CT findings of smoking-related lung disease.
Smoking remains the leading caues of preventable death in the United States. The risks of developiong lung cancer, COPD, and cardiovacular disease greatly increase in cigarette smokers. However, the link between smoking and other lung diseases is better understood. This presentation will review the clinical, histopathologic, and high-resolution CT findings of the spectrum of smoking-related interstitial lung diseases. Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, respiratory bronchiolitis-desquamative interstitial pneumonia spectrum, acute eosinophilic pneumonia, and pulmonary fibrosis will be discussed.
Kanne, J,
Smoking Related Lung Disease. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
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