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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:

Historical Perspective

Discovery

• In 1925,G. F. LAUGHLEN, M.D. was the first physician to describe lipoid pneumonia .
• He first interacted to the disease by routine autopsy at the Toronto, Ontorio hospital for sick children.
• He described grayish red nodules at the autopsy with three types of exudates, found out mononuclear cells which were unexpected in the exudates.