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Crazy Paving is a combination of ground glass opacity with superimposed septal thickening (5).
It was first
failure, ARDS, AIP ... ) #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #CrazyPaving ... #Proteinosis #AlveolarProteinosis ... #RadiologyAssistant
Alveolar proteinosis is a rare disease characterized by filling of the alveolar spaces with PAS positive
Alveolar proteinosis ... the suggestive HRCT ... pattern (crazy ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #AlveolarProteinosis
Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
resolution of the HRCT ... in ground glass pattern ... predominance: UIP ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
Key findings in alveolar proteinosis
- Crazy paving pattern: reticular pattern superimposed on ground glass opacification.
- Opacifications
proteinosis - Crazy ... paving pattern: ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #AlveolarProteinosis ... #CrazyPaving #RadiologyAssistant
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
On a Chest X-Ray ... in many cases UIP ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
Reticular pattern 
1. Lymphangitic carcinomatosis: irregular septal thickening, usually focal or unilateral 50% adenopathy', known carcinoma.
2.
gravitational and ... Alveolar proteinosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #HRCT #CTChest ... Comparison #Table #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a patient with both septal thickening and ground glass opacity in a patchy
pulmonary hemorrhage ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #AlveolarProteinosis ... #Alveolar #Proteinosis ... #RadiologyAssistant
UIP
UIP is a histologic pattern of pulmonary fibrosis.
On a chest X-ray UIP manifests as a reticular
pattern of pulmonary ... On a chest X-ray ... A HRCT is needed ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Honeycombing #RadiologyAssistant
UIP with honeycombing (left) and chronic HP (right)
Differential diagnosis of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.
Subacute stage:
- RB-ILD: seen in
centrilobular emphysema. - Alveolar ... proteinosis. ... show very similar HRCT ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #CTChest
Septal thickening
Thickening of the lung interstitium by fluid, fibrous tissue, or infiltration by cells results in
cells results in a pattern ... alveolar proteinosis ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #HRCT ... #CTChest #Reticular