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Mucoid impaction
Mucus plugs or mucoid impaction can mimick the appearance of lung nodules or a mass.
Sometimes
Mucoid impaction Mucus ... patients with asthma ... bronchial obstruction caused ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Plugging #RadiologyAssistant
Sometimes the centrilobular opacities are more nodular in appearance as in this case. #Clinical #Radiology #CTChest
appearance as in this case ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Pneumonitis #HypersensitivityPneumonitis ... Centrilobular #RadiologyAssistant
Here another case of subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
There is subtle opacity in the centre of the secondary
Here another case ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Pneumonitis #HypersensitivityPneumonitis ... Centrilobular #RadiologyAssistant
Here another case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
There is a mosaic pattern.
Some secundary lobules demonstrate ground-glass opacity due
Here another case ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Pneumonitis #HypersensitivityPneumonitis ... #GroundGlass #RadiologyAssistant
These images are of a patient who had widespread bronchopneumonia and was on ventilation.
During follow up
This was caused ... by a large mucus ... suction of the mucus ... was re-aerated #Clinical ... MucousPlugging #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a case with multiple round and bizarre shaped cysts.
There was an upper lobe
On the left a case ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #LangerhansCellHistiocytosis ... Histiocytosis #LCH #RadiologyAssistant
On the left another case of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis.
It started as small noduli, which progressed over
the left another case ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #LCH #LangerhansCellHistiocytosis ... Histiocytosis #Cystic #RadiologyAssistant
Subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis
The key findings in the subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis are:
ill-defined centrilobular nodules of ground-glass opacity
opacity (80% of cases ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Pneumonitis #HypersensitivityPneumonitis ... Centrilobular #RadiologyAssistant
Cystic versus Reticular
It can be difficult to determine whether we are dealing with a reticular pattern
In many of such cases ... #Clinical #Radiology ... Interstitial #Langerhans #LangerhansCellHistiocytosis ... #LCH #RadiologyAssistant
Total atelectasis
The chest x-ray shows total atelectasis of the right lung due to mucus plugging.
Notice the
right lung due to mucus ... A common cause of ... #Clinical #Radiology ... Lung #Collapse #RadiologyAssistant