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. 2018 Apr 1;197(7):949–952. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201707-1446LE

Table 1.

Summary of Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease Who Underwent In Vivo Endobronchial Optical Coherence Tomography

Case No. Age/Sex HRCT Interpretation In Vivo Endobronchial OCT Diagnosis Surgical Lung Biopsy Diagnosis
1 56/M Nondiagnostic UIP UIP
2 74/M Nondiagnostic UIP UIP
3 69/M Nondiagnostic UIP UIP
4 52/F UIP Non-UIP/IPF ILD Non-UIP/IPF ILD
5 64/M Nondiagnostic UIP Indeterminate*

Definition of abbreviations: HRCT = high-resolution computed tomography; ILD = interstitial lung disease; IPF = idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; OCT = optical coherence tomography; UIP = usual interstitial pneumonitis.

*

Reviewed by five pathologists: interpreted by three as UIP without clear honeycomb; by one as indeterminate, UIP possible; and by one as chronic organizing pneumonia.