Mixed or unclassified emphysema
Whenever same lung show more than one type of emphysema called mixed emphysema. It is usually due to more severe involvement finally loss of clear cut difference between more than one type of emphysema.
Thus the lungs of an elderly smoker at autopsy may show regularly centriacinar emphysema in the upper lobes, panacinar emphysema in the lower lobes, and para septal emphysema in the subpleural region.
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