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Chest radiograph of a 32-year-old man with fever and nonproductive cough of two weeks’ duration.
Diffuse infiltrates in the periphery of both lungs, with relative sparing of the perihilar regions, is characteristic ofeosinophilic pneumonia. This patient’s total leukocyte count was 18,000/ with 20% eosinophils. After a week of corticosteroid therapy alone, his symptoms, radiographic abnormalities, and eosinophiliaresolved.
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