The following table or figure may be downloaded to PowerPoint for personal use in teaching and presentations. This feature is available to all subscribers to the journal.

You MUST read and follow the guidelines at Request to Reproduce AJR Content if you are distributing or using AJR content beyond academic use (limited distribution, non-revenue producing, or educational purposes).

(Downloading may take up to 30 seconds.
If the slide opens in your browser, select File -> Save As to save it.)

Fig. 15. —22-year-old female IV drug user with cotton embolism and shortness of breath. Patient typically used cotton balls to clean her skin and inserted needle through cotton while injecting narcotics. Posteroanterior chest radiograph reveals multiple poorly marginated hazy and homogeneous opacities in both lungs. Open lung biopsy results revealed chronic inflammatory reaction and refractile cotton fibers.