Smoking-related interstitial lung disease (ILD) consists of a heterogeneous group of disorders that are considered a distinct entity. The 2013 American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society recommendations classified respiratory bronchiolitis (RB)/RB-ILD and desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) as smoking-related idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs). The overlapping histop...

미만성 간질성 폐질환(diffuse interstitial lung disease)은폐포보다는폐간질을주로침범하는다양한 정도의염증과섬유화소견을보이는만성질환으로결체조 직질환이나약물등원인이밝혀진경우와특발성인경우로 나눌 수 있다. 특발성 간질성 폐렴의 분류는 2002년 American Thoracic Society와 European Respiratory Society의 합의를 통한 임상적, 영상의학적 그리고 병리학적 소견을 종합한 다각적 접근에 따른 분류 체계가 널리 받아 들여 지고 있다(1, 2). 이에 따르면 특발성 간질성 폐렴은 상용 간질성 폐렴(idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/usual interstitial pneumonia, IPF/UIP), 비특이적 간질성 폐렴 (nonspe...

As an idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) is an uncommon form of interstitial lung disease and is considered to be a smoking- or dust inhalation-related interstitial pneumonia in the majority of cases. However, the details regarding immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related lung disease remain unclear and controversial. We herein report the first case of DIP comp...

The interstitial lung diseases are a diverse collection of disorders characterized by impaired gas exchange, restricted physiology on lung function testing, and diffuse parenchymal lung infiltrates on radiography. Although the interstitial lung diseases are many (Table 1), in routine clinical practice, the most commonly encountered in general internal medicine practice are sarcoidosis, idiopath...

  Tears of the subscapularis tendon have been significantly recognized as a source of shoulder pain and dysfunction in the past decade, thanks to arthroscopic evaluation of the shoulder and biomechanical and anatomical studies of the tendon. Current classification of subscapularis tendon tear is based on insertion site of the tendon. Recently, a classification for non-insertional types of subsc...

Interstitial pregnancy is rare and dangerous variation of ectopic pregnancy. We describe a case of unilateral interstitial viable twin pregnancy treated by selective uterine artery embolization. A 23-year-old women with clinical and ultrasonic diagnosis of viable twin interstitial pregnancy was treated by selective uterine artery embolization after failure of systemic methotrexate treatment. He...

Trends in the growth of extended interstitial defects are extracted from extensive tight-binding and ab inito local density approximation simulations. With an increasing number of interstitials, the stable defect shape evolves from compact to chainlike to rodlike. The rodlike 311 defect, formed from (011) interstitial chains, is stabilized as it grows, elongating in the chain direction. Accurat...