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Choe, Lee, Ko, Lee, Kim, Hwang, Lee, Lee, and Bae: Acute Chemical Pneumonitis Caused by Nitric Acid Inhalation: Case Report

Abstract

Chemical pneumonitis induced by nitric acid inhalation is a rare clinical condition. The previously reported radiologic findings of this disease include acute permeability pulmonary edema, delayed bronchiolitis obliterans, and bronchiectasis. In very few published rare radiologic reports has this disease manifested as acute alveolar injury; we report a case of acute chemical pneumonitis induced by nitric acid inhalation which at radiography manifested as bilateral perihilar consolidation and ground-glass attenuation, suggesting acute alveolar injury.

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