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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 ... differentiating mucus ... MucoidImpaction #MucusPlugging ... #Mucus #Plugging
These images are of a patient who had widespread bronchopneumonia and was on ventilation.
During follow up
caused by a large mucus ... suction of the mucus ... Collapse #Pneumonia #MucousPlugging
There is a right lower lobe atelectasis.
Notice the abnormal right border of the heart.
The right interlobar
ventilation with mucus ... Lobar #Collapse #MucousPlugging
Fern test. Fern test refers to detection of a characteristic 'fern like' pattern of cervical mucus
pattern of cervical mucus ... specimen of cervical mucus
Acute Hypoxemia - Differential Diagnosis
 • Hyperacute: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Pulmonary Edema, Mucous ... Alveolar: Pneumonia, Mucous
Wheezing - Differential Diagnosis Framework - Not all that wheezes is asthma
Vibrations of turbulent flow against
tracheal tumor, Mucus ... stenosis, bronchitis, Mucus
Differential Diagnosis of Wheezing
 • Extrathoracic (wheezing Is typically inspiratory): Anaphylaxis, Vocal cord pathology, Laryngeal stenosis,
Tracheal tumors, Mucus
Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA)
WHAT IS IT?
Hypersensitivity response to Aspergillus fumigatus in the airways
 • Primarily affects
airway increased mucus ... see thick dark mucus
Anaphylaxis: Pathogenesis
Anaphylaxis is a Type 1 hypersensitivity reaction
While the primary mechanism of anaphylaxis is mast cell
• Increased mucus
Tree-in-bud
In centrilobular nodules the recognition of 'tree-in-bud' is of value for narrowing the differential diagnosis.
Tree-in-bud describes
and impacted (mucus