(A) Smoking-related interstitial fibrosis involving subpleural lung parenchyma (pleural surface is at the left) with centrilobular accentuation (arrow); (B) thickening of the alveolar septa by dense, eosinophilic, paucicellular collagen bundles. Pulmonary adenocarcinoma mutation profile in smokers with smoking-related interstitial fibrosis. Primiani A, Dias-Santagata D, Iafrate AJ, Kradin RL - International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2014). Not Altered. CC.
Smoking-related interstitial diseases that cause restrictive lung diseases are as follows.
Examples of smoking-related interstitial diseases that cause restrictive lung diseases are:
- Desquamative interstitial pneumonia
- Respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease
