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Progressive Massive Fibrosis on Chest X-Ray
In a construction worker presenting with shortness of breath.
Progressive Massive Fibrosis
Fibrosis on Chest ... benign, upper lobe ... #Fibrosis #Chest ... #XRay #CXR #silicosis ... #clinical #radiology
Notice the cavitation especially on the right.
In the left upper lobe there is probably some traction-bronchiectasis
the left upper lobe ... traction-bronchiectasis due to the fibrosis ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... #SecondaryTB #Cavitary ... TractionBronchiectasis #RadiologyAssistant
Progressive Massive Fibrosis aka Complicated Silicosis.
Silicosis is a fibrotic lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline
Progressive Massive ... of progressive massive ... bilaterally in the upper lobes ... #clinical #radiology ... #CXR #Chest #XRay
High Attenuation pattern (2) 
1. Non specific interstitial pneumonitis (NSIP): ground glass with traction bronchiectasis, no
as a result of massive ... fibrosis perihilar ... and in upper lobes ... #HRCT #CTChest ... Comparison #Table #RadiologyAssistant
Lungcancer
10% of lungcancers cavitate, most commonly squamous cell carcinoma.
Small cell lungcancer does not cavitate.
Bronchoalveolar carcinoma, or
of lungcancers cavitate ... Here a chest x-ray ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #LungCancer ... #Cavitary #RadiologyAssistant
High Attenuation pattern 
1. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia with peripheral areas of ground glass opacity.
2. Sarcoid end-stage
end-stage with massive ... fibrosis in upper ... lobes presenting ... #HRCT #CTChest ... Comparison #Table #RadiologyAssistant
TB
This patient presented first with the CXR on the left.
The findings are:
Widespread ill-defined densities, which are
Cavity in the right ... minimal fibrosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #SecondaryTB #Cavitary ... #RadiologyAssistant
Longstanding Sarcoidosis
Here a typical chest film in a patient with long standing Sarcoidosis (stage IV).
There is
Here a typical chest ... with upper lobe ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... #RadiologyAssistant
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 ... the right upper lobe ... #CXR #AirBronchogram ... Lobar #Pneumonia #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a chest film of a patient with UIP due to IPF.
The findings on
volume loss and fibrotic ... reticulation with a lower lobe ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest # ... Reticular #ILD #RadiologyAssistant