A 67-Year-Old Man Develops Severe Respiratory Distress and Collapses

A 67-year-old man develops severe respiratory distress and collapses.  The emergency medical team finds the patient unresponsive with no pulse and he is unable to be revived despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  A photograph of the lung as seen at autopsy is shown below. Which of the following underlying histopathological changes are most likely to be seen within this patient's lungs?

A) Ferruginous bodies embedded within interstitial fibrous tissue
B) Hemosiderin-laden macrophages within congested airways
C) Interalveolar septal destruction with bronchial wall inflammation
D) Multinucleated giant cells surrounding caseating granulomas
E) Necrotizing arteritis with adjacent palisading epithelioid histiocytes
F) Patchy interstitial fibrosis with the presence of fibroblastic foci

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