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Lipoid pneumonia

An unusual and preventable illness in elderly patients

Marvin Moe Bell
Canadian Family Physician September 2015; 61 (9) 775-777;

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  • Figure 1.
    Figure 1.

    Patient’s chest radiograph at first emergency department presentation shows patchy left perihilar opacity and right basal opacity, suggesting possible multifocal bronchopneumonia; however, the imaging features are relatively nonspecific

  • Figure 2.
    Figure 2.

    Patient’s chest radiograph 9 months later shows new right perihilar nodular bronchovascular thickening compared with the first chest radiograph (Figure 1), with continued right basal opacity and slightly worsened left perihilar opacity

  • Figure 3.
    Figure 3.

    Computed tomography of chest at patient’s follow-up visit: Axial unenhanced thoracic computed tomography in lung (A–C) and soft tissue (D–F) windows show multifocal, bilateral, patchy areas of dependent ground-glass opacity and peribronchial consolidation. Soft tissue images show several foci of low attenuation consolidation consistent with fat (arrowheads). Compare attenuation of these regions with fat attenuation in the chest wall (F).

    *Chest wall.

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