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lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis
Etiology:
1) lymphoma (most common)
a) Hodgkin's lymphoma
b) non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
2) early lymphomatoid granulomatosis
3) chronic lymphocytic leukemia
4) Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia
5) angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy
6) Sezary syndrome
7) pseudolymphoma
8) HIV1 infection (AIDS)
9) graft-versus-host disease
10) congenital agammaglobulinemia
11) Sjogren's syndrome
12) idiopathic
Pathology: diffuse interstitial infiltration by lymphocytes
Laboratory: lung biopsy
Related
angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AILD)
Bruton type agammaglobulinemia
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
HIV1 infection; human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection
lymphoma (lymphosarcoma)
mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome
Sjogren's syndrome (autoimmune epitheliitis)
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia
General
lung disease
References
- Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed)
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 753
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American
College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998