[Histopathology of interstitial lung diseases].

Diffuse interstitial lung disorders include more than 200 different syndroms affecting the space between epithelial basal membrane and endothelial cells. Histopathological investigation of the lung tissue is one of the crucial parts of the multidisciplinary team approach for the investigation of these disorders. The aim of this review is a brief characterization of the pattern of the main subtypes of lung tissue damage.