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Table 6 Number of patients of each pathological finding with moderate or severe grade

From: Long-term clinical course of anti-glycyl tRNA synthetase (anti-EJ) antibody-related interstitial lung disease pathologically proven by surgical lung biopsy

Findings

acute onset (n = 8)

chronic onset (n = 4)

Organizing pneumonia

8

3

Alveolar epithelial injury

6

4

Interstitial cellular infiltration

6

2

Pleural fibrosis

5

3

Collapse

3

4

Alveolar wall fibrosis

2

3

Pleuritis

0

1

Lymphoid follicles with germinal centers

0

0

Fibroblastic focus

0

2

Microscopic honeycombing

0

0