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case_images: Initial thoracic X-ray showing right lung opacities (black arrow).
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case_images: FIG1
case_images: Thoracic CT scan revealing right parenchymal consolidation, permeated by air bronchograms.. Parenchymal consolidation in the right lung, permeated by air bronchograms (black arrow).
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case_images: She was admitted to the hospital and a thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan revealed right lung consolidations suggestive of pneumonia (Figure 2).
case_images: Thoracic CT scan showing new scattered ill-defined consolidation on the left lung despite reduction in right middle lobar parenchymal consolidation (first relapse).. New parenchymal consolidations in the left lung (black arrow).
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case_images: FIG3
case_images: Thoracic CT scan revealing new areas of parenchymal consolidation localized to both pulmonary apexes (new location; second relapse).. New areas of consolidation at the pulmonary apexes bilaterally (black arrows).
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case_images: FIG4
case_images: A thoracic CT scan conducted at the 10-year mark showed only millimetric ground glass opacities (at the same level as the pulmonary infiltrates in Figure 4), with no inflammatory parenchymal or interstitial changes (Figure 6).
case_images: Thoracic CT scan showing the disappearance of all consolidation areas (second relapse).. Absence of previously present parenchymal lesions (black arrows).
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case_images: FIG5
case_images: Thoracic CT scan 10 years after the first episode of radiation-induced organizing pneumonia.. Presence of a few millimetric ground glass opacities (black arrows) surrounded by normal lung tissue.
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case_images: FIG6
case_images: A thoracic CT scan conducted at the 10-year mark showed only millimetric ground glass opacities (at the same level as the pulmonary infiltrates in Figure 4), with no inflammatory parenchymal or interstitial changes (Figure 6).