Hypersensitivity pneumonitis in a machin
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Andrew Freeman; James Lockey; Philip Hawley; Paul Biddinger; Douglas Trout
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), or extrinsic allergic alveolitis, is a patchy, interstitial lung disease that involves an immunologic reaction of the lung to repeated inhalation of foreign antigens. In this report, we describe a machinist with exposure to metalworking fluids (MWFs) and biopsy-con