BOF: 3.31
A patient who is known to
have restrictive lung disease and a chest x-ray that shows reticular shadowing
has an open lung biopsy. The pathologist reports the presence of cells with
pentalaminar inclusions in their cytoplasm (Birbeck granules, X bodies)
This is diagnostic of:
a)
Sarcoidosis
b)
Idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis
c)
Asbestosis
d) Lymphangioleiomyoatosis
e)
Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis
