The typical clinical manifestation of acute eosinophilic pneumonia is acute onset of respiratory symptoms due to smoking or medication use, accompanied by bilateral ground-glass opacity with consolidations on chest radiography. However, differential diagnosis with acute eosinophilic pneumonia should not be excluded in cases of unilateral pneumonia of postoperative lung.
Keywords: eosinophilia; eosinophilic pneumonia; lung lobectomy; unilateral pneumonia.
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