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Crazy Paving is a combination of ground glass opacity with superimposed septal thickening (5).
It was first
specific for alveolar proteinosis ... diseases. - Alveolar proteinosis ... Paving #Alveolar #Proteinosis
On the left a patient with both septal thickening and ground glass opacity in a patchy
specific for alveolar proteinosis ... AlveolarProteinosis #Alveolar #Proteinosis
High-Res Chest CT Patterns - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Reticular:
 • Septal Thickening: Lymphangitic Carcinoma, Interstitial Edema, Alveolar
Edema, Alveolar Proteinosis ... Paving: Alveolar Proteinosis
Key findings in alveolar proteinosis
- Crazy paving pattern: reticular pattern superimposed on ground glass opacification.
- Opacifications
findings in alveolar proteinosis ... case of alveolar proteinosis
Non-Resolving Pneumonias: Etiologies
Unusual Infections:
 - Immunocompromised patients (e.g.: Mycobacterium, Aspergillosis, Nocardia)
 - Endemic Fungi (e.g.: Histoplasmosis,
- Alveolar proteinosis
#radiology #ctchest #differential

Differential Diagnosis of Ground-glass Opacity.

Some abbreviations
HP: Hypersensitive pneumonitis
DIP: Desquamative interstitial pneumonia
PAP: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
MIA:
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
It is very important to differentiate between acute consolidation and chronic consolidation, because it will limit
- Alveolar proteinosis
Pulmonary Complications Following Stem Cell Transplant

For patients in the pre- engraftment period (day 0-30):
 - 
Pulmonary
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Radiographic appearances of pulmonary diseases in HIV/AIDS Patients
 • Diffuse Interstitial Infiltrates: Pneumocystis jirovecii, M.tuberculosis, Histoplasma
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Differential diagnosis of Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis. 
On the left multiple diseases showing septal thickening:
1. Lymphangitic carcinomatosis: irregular
Alveolar proteinosis