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Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
or interstitial lung ... bronchiolitis #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #Pulmonary ... #CTChest #GGO # ... GroundGlassOpacity #GroundGlass
Consolidation is synonymous with airspace disease.
When you think of the causes of consolidation, think of 'what
you think of the causes ... , NSIP and long ... the alveoli and cause ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CTChest
The idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) comprise a heterogenous group of disorders. 
They represent fundamental responses of
responses of the lung ... indicates unknown cause ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... IdiopathicInterstitialPneumonia #ILD
Septic emboli
Septic emboli usually present as multiple ill-defined nodules.
In about 50% cavitation is seen.
CT demonstrates more
can suggest the diagnosis ... abutting the pleura, air-bronchograms ... densities iin the left lung ... cavitation in the right lung ... #Clinical #Radiology
Lobar pneumonia
On the chest x-ray there is an ill-defined area of increased density in the right
pneumonia On the chest ... x-ray there is an ill-defined ... Notice the air-bronchogram ... weight loss or long ... #Clinical #Radiology
On the left a chest film of a patient with UIP due to IPF.
The findings on
changes in the basal lung ... reticular densities caused ... film with long ... #Clinical #Radiology ... Pneumonitis #Reticular #ILD
Air Bronchogram Sign on Chest CT
 • Patent airways surrounded by opacified lung
 • DDx: pna,
surrounded by opacified lung ... edema, severe ILD ... Bronchogram #Sign #CT #Lung ... #Pulmonary #diagnosis ... #radiology #clinical
Here another case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
There is a mosaic pattern.
Some secundary lobules demonstrate ground-glass opacity due
Here another case ... opacity due to lung ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #Hypersensitivity ... HypersensitivityPneumonitis #Mosaic #GroundGlass
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
Differential diagnosis ... in interstitial lung ... seen and in many cases ... UIP can be suspected ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
densities in both lungs ... maybe there is an air-bronchogram ... masses. ... the differential diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology