Category:Respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease

A idiopathic interstitial pneumonia which involves bronchiolocentric alveolar macrophage accumulation, mild bronchiolar fibrosis and chronic inflammation. Respiratory bronchiolitis is a histopathologic lesion found in cigarette smokers and is characterized by the presence of pigmented intralumenal macrophages within first- and second-order respiratory bronchioles.

equivalent URI:=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050158