[Interstitial lung diseases associated with smoking]

Abstract

There are many different interstitial lung diseases associated with smoking. This short review describes officially recognized disorders (desquamative interstitial pneumonia, respiratory bronchiolitis and pulmonary Langerhans´cells histiocytosis) and entities with uncertain relationship to smoking, which have recently been published in the literature. Histopathological pictures and differential diagnosis of smoking-related diseases of the lungs are discussed.

Keywords: emphysema - pneumonia - bronchiolitis - smoking - fibrosis - histiocytosis..