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Thorax 64:12 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.096875
  • Pulmonary puzzle
    • Miscellaneous

An unusual cause of patchy ground-glass opacity

  1. N Just1,
  2. J Delourme1,
  3. C Delattre2,
  4. A Liesse3,
  5. F Steenhouwer1
  1. 1
    Department of Pneumology, Victor Provo Hospital, F-59100 Roubaix, France
  2. 2
    Department of Cytology, Lille University Hospital, F-59000 Lille, France
  3. 3
    Department of Radiology, Victor Provo Hospital, F-59100 Roubaix, France
  1. Dr N Just, Department of Pneumology, Victor Provo Hospital, F-59100 Roubaix, France; nicolas.just{at}ch-roubaix.fr

    CLINICAL PRESENTATION

    In November 2006 a 33-year-old man was admitted with acute respiratory distress following a suicide attempt (50 hydroxyzine tablets and a vial of diazepam). The patient’s medical history included a heroin and cocaine addiction which was substituted …