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Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
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Diffuse consolidation
The most common cause of diffuse consolidation is pulmonary edema due to heart failure.
This is
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Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
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Lobar pneumonia
On the chest x-ray there is an ill-defined area of increased density in the right
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Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
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Sarcoidosis
On a CXR sarcoidosis usually first presents with hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy (example).
Parenchymal disease can present
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31 • First US case ... symptoms Imaging • CXR ... crazy paving, consolidation ... unilateral* • POCUS ... line thickening, consolidations
Multifocal
Multifocal consolidations are also described as multifocal ill-defined opacities or densities.
In most cases these are the
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On the left a case of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.
It was a patient with low-grade fever, progressive
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Lung infarction
In pulmonar embolism it is not common to see consolidation.
The consolidation is a result of
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