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Here are the most common examples of these four patterns on a chest x-ray (click image
Consolidation - ... Pulmonary Nodule - Multiple ... Masses Atelectasis ... #Diagnosis #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR
Multiple masses
The differential diagnostic list of multiple masses is very long.
The most important diagnoses are listed
Multiple masses ... The differential ... multifocal consolidations ... #Management #Radiology ... #Lung #Multiple
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
determine the cause ... chronic illness, clinical ... pneumonia (OP) - multiple ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #CXR
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
- Multiple - usually ... multiple ill-defined ... lobar pneumonia caused ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
that there are multiple ... ill-defined masses ... dealing with the differential ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Peripheral
Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy (AFLP)
Pathophysiology:
 • Defect in fetal free fatty acid metabolism products →
of Pregnancy (AFLP ... = nonspecific (nausea ... AP, ↑INR, ↑BUN/Cr ... infiltration) Differential ... iMedEducation #AFLP
Multifocal
Multifocal consolidations are also described as multifocal ill-defined opacities or densities.
In most cases these are the
In most cases these ... underlying pathology of multiple ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #CXR #Multifocal ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
Diffuse consolidation in bronchopneumonia
Here another case of diffuse consolidation.
This patient had fever and cough.
This was thought
Diffuse consolidation ... usually starts in multiple ... Bronchopneumonia can be caused ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Pneumonia
Pleural plaques
The CXR shows multiple opacities.
They have irregular shapes and do not look like a lung
Pleural plaques The CXR ... shows multiple ... look like a lung masses ... or consolidations ... #Clinical #Radiology
Wegener's granulomatosis
Wegener's is a collagen vascular disease with vasculitis involving the lung, kidney and sinuses.
In the
the vasculitis causes ... ill-defined areas of consolidation ... can be seen as multiple ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #GPA #Wegeners