Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia presenting with spontaneous hydropneumothorax and solitary pulmonary nodule

Respirology. 1999 Sep;4(3):267-70. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.1999.00187.x.

Abstract

The first case of idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP) presenting as solitary pulmonary nodule with spontaneous hydropneumothorax is reported in a 54-year-old man. A wedge resection of the right lower lobe was performed to show typical histological features of BOOP. This case report demonstrates that BOOP has a very diverse clinical manifestation and stresses the need to include solitary pulmonary nodule with hydropneumothorax in the spectrum of BOOP.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / complications
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / diagnosis*
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / pathology
  • Humans
  • Hydropneumothorax / etiology*
  • Lung / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / etiology*