Loeffler pneumonia

• idiopathic
• local, nonsegmental areas of TRANSIENT consolidation
  • most dense at periphery
  • "reversed edema pattern"

• peripheral eosinophilia
• benign course

differentiate from:

• chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
• mucoid impaction (+/- ABPA)

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18