Unilateral acute eosinophilic pneumonia on the operative side: A case 9 years after lung lobectomy
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Masaaki Iwabayashi; Rika Hashimoto; Mariko Takada; Hiromi Tomioka
- Source
- Respirology Case Reports, Vol 11, Iss 8, Pp n/a-n/a (2023)
- Subject
- eosinophilia
eosinophilic pneumonia
lung lobectomy
unilateral pneumonia
Diseases of the respiratory system
RC705-779
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2051-3380
Abstract The typical clinical manifestation of acute eosinophilic pneumonia is acute onset of respiratory symptoms due to smoking or medication use, accompanied by bilateral ground‐glass opacity with consolidations on chest radiography. However, differential diagnosis with acute eosinophilic pneumonia should not be excluded in cases of unilateral pneumonia of postoperative lung.