PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cooney, T P
TI  - Interrelationship of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, bronchiolitis obliterans, and rheumatoid disease: a hypothesis.
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.34.2.129
DP  - 1981 Feb 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 129--137
VI  - 34
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/34/2/129.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/34/2/129.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol1981 Feb 01; 34
AB  - Three patients with histologically proven bronchiolitis obliterans are presented, two of whom had rheumatoid disease. All three patients had, in addition, clinical and radiological evidence of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia; open lung biopsy in two showed coexistent features of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia and bronchiolitis obliterans. The association of both rheumatoid disease are chronic eosinophilic pneumonia with bronchiolitis obliterans in these patients may simply be coincidental, but the striking similarities between the cases suggest that a real interrelationship of these disease entities may exist.