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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)

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