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Case Reports
. 2015 Sep;61(9):775-7.

Lipoid pneumonia: An unusual and preventable illness in elderly patients

Marvin Moe Bell  1
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Case Reports

Lipoid pneumonia: An unusual and preventable illness in elderly patients

Marvin Moe Bell. Can Fam Physician. 2015 Sep.
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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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