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Here are the most common examples of these four patterns on a chest x-ray (click image
of these four patterns ... consolidation - Diffuse ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... Consolidation #Patterns ... #RadiologyAssistant
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
at the pattern ... more than one pattern ... lobar pneumonia caused ... Radiology #Pulmonary #CXR ... Differential #Table #RadiologyAssistant
Interstitial pneumonias
An acute reticular pattern is most frequently caused by interstitial edema due to cardiac heart
Interstitial pneumonias ... acute reticular pattern ... The other cause ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... Pneumonia #PJP #RadiologyAssistant
Algorithm for nodular pattern
The algorithm to distinguish perilymphatic, random and centrilobular nodules is the following:
- Look
pattern The algorithm ... the following: - Look ... are visible, the pattern ... NodularPattern #Nodular #Pattern ... #RadiologyAssistant
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Unknown • 6-7 cases ... - Imaging: • CXR ... consolidation and GG pattern ... Pulmonary lymphoma, Diffuse ... #pulmonary #ILD
Whenever you see an area of increased density within the lung, it must be the result
of these four patterns ... resulting in lobar, diffuse ... Diagnosis #Radiology #CXR ... Consolidation #Patterns ... #RadiologyAssistant
The idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) comprise a heterogenous group of disorders. 
They represent fundamental responses of
idiopathic interstitial pneumonias ... indicates unknown cause ... have specific patterns ... realise, that these patterns ... #Findings #RadiologyAssistant
Subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis
The key findings in the subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis are:
ill-defined centrilobular nodules of ground-glass opacity
are: ill-defined ... opacity (80% of cases ... ) or mosaic pattern ... There are ill-defined ... Centrilobular #RadiologyAssistant
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP, earlier named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis) is a rare idiopathic lung disease characterized
named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis ... characterized by diffuse ... The histologic pattern ... AcuteInterstitialPneumonia #ILD ... #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a chest film of a 19 year old patient with Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
The
is a reticular patern ... recognized that this pattern ... was caused by multiple ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... Histiocytosis #Cystic #RadiologyAssistant