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Table 3 Radiographic patterns in chest HRCT and histologic findings of transbronchial lung biopsy

From: Clinical implications of bronchoscopy for immune checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Case

Age

Gender

Radiographic patterns in chest HRCT

Major histological findings

1

68

M

OP pattern

Alveolitis, organizing pneumonia

2

73

F

OP pattern

Alveolitis

3

68

M

HP pattern

4

66

M

OP pattern

Alveolitis, acute lung injury

5

51

M

HP pattern

6

79

M

OP pattern

7

70

M

OP pattern

Alveolitis

8

74

M

OP pattern

9

72

M

OP pattern

Alveolitis, organizing pneumonia

10

71

M

NSIP pattern

Organizing pneumonia, fibrosis

11

63

F

HP pattern

Alveolitis, organizing pneumonia

12

70

F

OP pattern

Alveolitis, organizing pneumonia

  1. Cases 1–5, 7, 8, 12: adenocarcinoma; Cases 6, 9, 11: squamous cell carcinoma; Case 10: not otherwise specified
  2. The findings of acute lung injury include swelling of type 2 alveolar pneumocytes and detached epithelial cells
  3. HP, hypersensitive pneumonitis; HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography; NSIP, non-specific interstitial pneumonia; OP, organizing pneumonia