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Case: Classic LCH

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So another case of diffuse cystic lung disease,

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but this is weird, right?

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Look at these. So you get these weird bizarre shaped cysts,

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some with thick walls, some with thin walls.

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You see small Cheerios like nodules as well, as well

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as other small central modular nodules.

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So we scroll through, we see more of this weirdness going on

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and these central lobular nodules

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with some Cheerios like nodules as well.

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And then the bizarre shape cysts are

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so just all over the place.

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And so as we get down to

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where the disease is a little bit less severe, we start

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to see more of these central lobular nodules

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and cheerios like nodules.

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And so the lung bases are nearly completely spirited,

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especially in a schizophrenic angles.

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This is classic long han cell histiocytosis,

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which again is smoke related lung disease associated

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with pulmonary hypertension as well,

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which this patient looks like they have.

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Pulmonary artery is dilated.

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So beautiful example of long han cell histiocytosis

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and they all sort of look like this, right?

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Uh, you can get LCH in women as well as a woman,

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but especially in a man.

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In a man. If you see diffuse cystic lung disease,

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the first thing you think about it is LCH

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and characteristically.

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They have this sort of ugly pattern.

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It's like not aesthetic pattern.

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And so that points to pulmonary lung cell histiocytosis

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as the cause for this disease pattern.

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Faculty

Jonathan H. Chung, MD

Professor of Radiology and Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging

UCSD - University of California San Diego

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Syndromes

Lungs

Chest CT

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