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1 Volume 148, Issue 6, Pages e175-e180 (December 2015)
A 79-Year-Old Man With Interstitial Lung Disease and Cryptic Area of High 18Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake in Left Upper Lobe  Cristian Rapicetta, MD, PhD, Filippo Lococo, MD, Cristiano Carbonelli, MD, Nicola Sverzellati, MD, Maria Liberata Di Paolo, MD, Alberto Cavazza, MD, Silvia Serra, MD, Tommaso Ricchetti, MD, Elisa Gasparini, MD, Alfredo Cesario, MD, Giorgio Sgarbi, MD, Loris Brandi, MD, Massimiliano Paci, MD, PhD  CHEST  Volume 148, Issue 6, Pages e175-e180 (December 2015) DOI: /chest Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 A-C, CT scan of lung apices (A, B) and basis (C) with ground-glass opacities and subpleural reticular thickening. CHEST  , e175-e180DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Mediastinal 4R lymphadenopathy without significant 18fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG) uptake. A, PET scan. B, C, CT scan with mediastinum window (B) and lung window (C). CHEST  , e175-e180DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 PET scan demonstrating high 18FDG uptake on the apicoposterior segment of the left upper lobe, without evidence of solid lesions at correction CT scan. See Figure 2 legend for expansion of abbreviation. CHEST  , e175-e180DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

5 Figure 4 A, Surgical lung biopsy specimen showing an interstitial lung disease with usual interstitial pneumonia pattern, characterized by dense scars alternating with normal lung and some fibroblastic foci (arrows) (hematoxylin eosin, magnification X 50). B, Adenocarcinoma with a lepidic pattern (hematoxylin eosin, magnification X 50). C, A focus of microinvasive adenocarcinoma with acinar pattern (hematoxylin eosin, magnification X 200). CHEST  , e175-e180DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions


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