A 54-Year-Old Man Referred With Nonresolving Pneumonia Julie Catteeuw, MD, Coenraad F.N. Koegelenberg, MBChB, PhD, Johannes W. Bruwer, MBChB, Gerhard Sissolak, MD, PhD, Leocardea Schroeter, MD, Nooroudien Mohamed, MBChB, MMed, Elvis M. Irusen, MBChB, PhD, FCCP CHEST Volume 146, Issue 3, Pages e92-e96 (September 2014) DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-2790 Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 – The patient's CT scan of the chest revealed dense consolidation involving mostly the left upper lobe, with some involvement of the apical segment of the right lower lobe. The infiltrates were both PET scan avid (not shown). There is no pleural effusion. CHEST 2014 146, e92-e96DOI: (10.1378/chest.13-2790) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 – The bronchial wall is diffusely effaced by an infiltrate of small lymphoid cells (monomorphic population) with irregular nuclei (hematoxylin and eosin, magnification ×100). CHEST 2014 146, e92-e96DOI: (10.1378/chest.13-2790) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions