(A) Photomicrograph shows mild alveolar interstitial thickening by a lymphocyte infiltrate and extensive filling of airspaces by finely vacuolated eosinophilic material.
(B) Magnified view of the material in one of the airspaces shows silver positive (black) round or helmet-shaped structures typical of Pneumocystis jirovecii.
Reproduced with permission from: Lee KS, Franquet T, Han J, Johkoh T. Müller's Diseases of the Lung: Radiologic and Pathologic Correlations, 2nd ed, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2012. Copyright © 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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