Acute Exacerbation of Interstitial Lung Disease in Newly Diagnosed Probable Dermatomyositis

Ki-Hwan Ji; Yeo Jung Kim; Jung Hwa Seo; Oeung Kyu Kim; Eun Joo Chung; Jeong Seok Bae

doi:10.14253/kjcn.2013.15.2.77

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Ji, Kim, Seo, Kim, Chung, and Bae: Acute Exacerbation of Interstitial Lung Disease in Newly Diagnosed Probable Dermatomyositis

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Korean J Community Nutr 2013;15(2):77-79.

Published online: 19 January 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14253/kjcn.2013.15.2.77

Acute Exacerbation of Interstitial Lung Disease in Newly Diagnosed Probable Dermatomyositis

Ki-Hwan Ji, Yeo Jung Kim, Jung Hwa Seo, Oeung Kyu Kim, Eun Joo Chung, Jeong Seok Bae

Department of Neurology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea

Address for correspondence; Ki-Hwan Ji Department of Neurology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, 75 Bokji-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 614-735, Korea Tel: +82-51-890-6766 Fax: +82-51-890-6130 E-mail: kihwanji@gmail.com

Received 18 July 20126 August 2013 Accepted 13 September 2013

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords: Dermatomyositis, Pneumonia, Interstitial lung disease

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Figure 1.

Initial chest X-ray (A) shows no active lung lesion. After 1 month of follow-up, chest X-ray (B) shows ground glass opacities in both lung. High resolution CT (C, D) shows interstitial septal thickening with geographic pattern of ground glass opacity and consolidation.

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