Chronic beryllium disease

Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is a granulomatous, interstitial lung disease that occurs in individuals who develop beryllium sensitization (BeS), a cell-mediated immune response to environmental and occupational beryllium exposure. BeS precedes the lung disease that may present with chronic dry cough, fatigue, weight loss, chest pain, and increasing dyspnea.

Bronchiectasis

Persistent abnormal dilatation of the bronchi owing to localized and irreversible destruction and widening of the large airways.

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PMID (PMCID)
7605810	FEMALE	Middle Aged
	[Chronic pulmonary berylliosis: imaging with high-resolution computerized tomography].
	Hansen M, Kauczor HU, Kelbel C, Mildenberger P. Aktuelle Radiol. 1995;5(3):149-51.
	Chronic pulmonary berylliosis presents both in computed tomography, including high resolution techniques, and in plain radiographs of the chest with unspecific results: subpleural micronodular changes, thickening of interlobular septa, occurrence of intralobular septa, traction bronchiectasis, and honeycombing.