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Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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hematogenous spread of a disease ... rarely) diffuse inhalational ... Differential Diagnosis ... Sarcoidosis, HSP • Inhalation ... #differential #diagnosis
Upper Lobe Lung Diseases - STAR CHASERS Mnemonic

S - Silicosis
T - Tuberculosis
A - Ankylosing Spondylitis
R -
Upper Lobe Lung Diseases ... MV S - Smoke inhalation ... conditions caused by inhalation ... gases: - Smoke inhalation ... #differential #diagnosis
Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
Interstitial Lung Diseases ... ILD caused by inhalation ... Connective Tissue Disease ... connective tissue disease ... #ILD #diagnosis
Causes of Diffuse Lung Disease. 
Collagen vascular 
 - Scleroderma 
 - Rheumatoid arthritis 
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of Diffuse Lung Disease ... Occupational/inhalation ... Metabolic storage disease ... chemotherapy #Diagnosis ... Diffuse #Lung #Disease
Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
Interstitial Lung Disease ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Connective Tissue Disease ... resulting from inhalation ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Rhodococcus - Microbiology Overview

Microbiology:
 • Facultative, intracellular, nonmotile, non-spore-forming
 • Aerobic acid-fast gram-positive coccobacilli
 • Produces
Transmission (Zoonotic disease ... herbivore manure • Inhalation ... due to trauma Diagnosis ... #Microbiology #diagnosis
Soil Related Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Mechanism Of Infection:
 • Wound
 • GI: Ingestion, MUD, Contaminated
- Differential Diagnosis ... Respiratory Tract: Inhalation ... black eschar - Inhalation ... primary pulmonary disease ... #differential #diagnosis
Fusarium Infections
Acquired through:
1. Inhalation of airborne conidia > germinates > blood > disseminated
2. Trauma (implantation with
Inhalation of airborne ... , Disseminated disease ... for disseminated disease ... enucleation Infectious Diseases ... infectiousdiseases #diagnosis
On the left a chest film of a 19 year old patient with Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
The
challenging differential diagnosis ... appreciate this in many inhalational ... diseases and also
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
HISTOPLASMOSIS • Inhalation ... extrapulmonary disease ... or meningitic disease ... . posadasii • Inhalation ... 40% Invasive Disease