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Polyethylene flock-associated interstitial lung disease in a Spanish female

¹ Servicio de Neumologíay, ³ Servicio de Patología, Hospital General Universitario and ² Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Vega Baja, Alicante, Spain

CORRESPONDENCE: S. Romero, Italia 30, 2^a Esc, 1°D, 03003, Alicante, Spain. Fax: 34 965249759. E-mail: romero_san@gva.es

Keywords: flock worker's lung, follicular peribronchiolitis, interstitial lung disease

Received: April 12, 2002
Accepted May 23, 2002

Abstract

This case study presents a female aged 54 yrs with a 12 months history of progressive pulmonary impairment after a 7-yr period of occupational exposure to rotary-cut polyethylene. An open lung biopsy revealed the histopathology of follicular bronchiolitis that is viewed as a stereotypical feature for flock worker's lung. It seems to be the first case of plastic flock-associated interstitial lung disease reported outside North America.

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