ABSTRACT
Pathologic evaluation of interstitial lung disease (ILD) should always follow
appropriate clinical and radiologic workup. The pathologist should always be
mindful of this as these data can be very helpful in interpretation. Very often, if
the clinical disease picture is classic enough, the surgical lung biopsy is rendered
unnecessary. Nevertheless, as both clinical and radiologic features can be non-
specific and many individual diseases have atypical features, the role of the
pathologist is still important and essential in many cases (1).
