

Reversed halo sign: central ground glass opacity surrounded by round consolidation.Infiltrative organizing pneumonia: diffuse infiltrative opacity.Focal organizing pneumonia: nodular or mass-like consolidation mimicking lung cancer ( Int J Clin Exp Pathol 2015 8:511).Typical organizing pneumonia sometimes looks similar to eosinophilic pneumonia, pulmonary lymphoma and lepidic adenocarcinoma.Size varies from a few centimeters to a whole lobe.


Chronic fibrotic changes of conventional organizing pneumonia with formation of dense collagen fibers within the alveolar space, with no architectural destruction.Also known as collagenized organizing pneumonia, cicatricial variant of organizing pneumonia, fibrosing organizing pneumonia, scarred organizing pneumonia.Cicatricial organizing pneumonia (ciOP) ( Histopathology 2022 80:279):.In 2002, the American Thoracic Society / European Respiratory Society suggested the term cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) to avoid confusion with airway disease (such as constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans) and categorized cryptogenic organizing pneumonia into acute / subacute interstitial pneumonia ( Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002 165:277, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2013 188:733).Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia.Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP):.
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(1985) reported a series of cases with organizing pneumonia and no evidence of infection or other aetiological agents after that, the term bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) was commonly used for a while ( Q J Med 1983 52:382, N Engl J Med 1985 312:152)
