Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2016; 37(03): 421-440
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1582013
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Many Faces of Bronchiolitis and Organizing Pneumonia

Jean-François Cordier
1   Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Reference Center for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Lyon, France
,
Vincent Cottin
1   Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Reference Center for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Lyon, France
,
Romain Lazor
1   Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Reference Center for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Lyon, France
2   Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
,
Françoise Thivolet-Béjui
3   Department of Pathology, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Lyon, France
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Publication Date:
27 May 2016 (online)

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Abstract

As the bronchioles have a strategic position between the airways and the alveolar structures, they are at a site where disorders of many origins may develop, including infections, inflammatory and/or fibrosing processes of immune, occupational, environmental, tumoral, and iatrogenic origin, which may result in predominant bronchiolitis and/or organizing pneumonia. This etiologic variety results in many distinct entities and syndromes, common or rare, with new or renewed faces such as bronchiolocentric interstitial pneumonia or organizing pneumonia primed by radiation to the breast.