TY - JOUR
T1 - Pathologic features of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
AU - Bosken, C. H.
AU - Myers, J. L.
AU - Greenberger, P. A.
AU - Katzenstein, A. L A
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - We describe the pathologic features in surgically excised lung tissue specimens from 18 cases of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). The main abnormalities involved bronchi and bronchioles. All cases showed bronchocentric granulomatosis (BCG), mucoid impaction of bronchi (MIB), or both. The impacted mucin of MIB contained large numbers of eosinophils and Charcot-Leyden crystals. A distinctive exudative bronchiolitis was present distal to areas of BCG in 13 cases. This lesion was characterized by filling of bronchiolar lumens with necrotic neutrophils and eosinophils in a basophilic mucinous exudate. A peribronchiolar chronic inflammatory infiltrate was seen in 15 cases; eosinophils were prominent in 10 of these cases. Foci of eosinophilic pneumonia were seen in 13 cases, and noninvasive fungal hyphae were identified in 14. We conclude that the finding of BCG or MIB, or a combination of both, especially in conjunction with tissue eosinophilia, should suggest the diagnosis of ABPA. When noninvasive fungal hyphae are also present, the changes are diagnostic of ABPA or a related allergic fungal reaction.
AB - We describe the pathologic features in surgically excised lung tissue specimens from 18 cases of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). The main abnormalities involved bronchi and bronchioles. All cases showed bronchocentric granulomatosis (BCG), mucoid impaction of bronchi (MIB), or both. The impacted mucin of MIB contained large numbers of eosinophils and Charcot-Leyden crystals. A distinctive exudative bronchiolitis was present distal to areas of BCG in 13 cases. This lesion was characterized by filling of bronchiolar lumens with necrotic neutrophils and eosinophils in a basophilic mucinous exudate. A peribronchiolar chronic inflammatory infiltrate was seen in 15 cases; eosinophils were prominent in 10 of these cases. Foci of eosinophilic pneumonia were seen in 13 cases, and noninvasive fungal hyphae were identified in 14. We conclude that the finding of BCG or MIB, or a combination of both, especially in conjunction with tissue eosinophilia, should suggest the diagnosis of ABPA. When noninvasive fungal hyphae are also present, the changes are diagnostic of ABPA or a related allergic fungal reaction.
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U2 - 10.1097/00000478-198803000-00007
DO - 10.1097/00000478-198803000-00007
M3 - Article
C2 - 3344888
AN - SCOPUS:0023860253
VL - 12
SP - 216
EP - 222
JO - American Journal of Surgical Pathology
JF - American Journal of Surgical Pathology
SN - 0147-5185
IS - 3
ER -