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### Clinical history

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A 70-year-old psychiatric patient with progressive dyspnea.

### Radiological images

### Radiological findings

### CT images

### CT findings

### Extra Examinations

Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage revealed fat droplets with a high number of lipid-laden macrophages. Additional interrogation of the patient revealed a history of chronic intake of paraffin for constipation.

### Final diagnosis

Lipoid pneumonia caused by aspiration of paraffin oil.

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