An unusual cause of patchy ground-glass opacity
- N Just1,
- J Delourme1,
- C Delattre2,
- A Liesse3,
- F Steenhouwer1
- 1Department of Pneumology, Victor Provo Hospital, F-59100 Roubaix, France
- 2Department of Cytology, Lille University Hospital, F-59000 Lille, France
- 3Department of Radiology, Victor Provo Hospital, F-59100 Roubaix, France
- 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 …









