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Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
Ground-glass opacity (GGO ... lung disease (i.e ... . fibrosis). ... in ground glass pattern ... #Pulmonary #CTChest
Primary Bone Tumors - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 

Metastatic - Most common tumour in adults
 - Breast
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... in adults - Breast ... - Thyroid - Lung ... #Orthopedics #Causes ... #Oncology #Radiology
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
The key findings in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis are:
Mosaic pattern with areas of ground-glass atenuation
with areas of ground-glass ... atenuation and areas ... distortion in a mid zone ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest #
Progressive Massive Fibrosis on Chest X-Ray
In a construction worker presenting with shortness of breath.
Progressive Massive Fibrosis
with shortness of breath ... is a chronic interstitial ... lung disease with ... pneumoconiosis which is caused ... silicosis #clinical #radiology
The idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) comprise a heterogenous group of disorders. 
They represent fundamental responses of
indicates unknown cause ... combinations of fibrosis ... have specific patterns ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CTChest
On the left a patient with GGO as dominant pattern.
In addition there is traction bronchiectasis indicating
a patient with GGO ... This case is one ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #NSIP ... #GroundGlass #GGO
Ground-glass opacity is nonspecific, but highly significant finding since 60-80% of patients with ground-glass opacity on
the lung disease ... the ground-glass pattern ... with GGO, one without ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #GroundGlass
On the left a patient who is treated with cytotoxic drugs for a hematologic malignancy.
The radiographic
radiographic findings are areas ... and non-specific interstitial ... However it is not one ... consider drug-related lung ... #CTChest #DrugInduced
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): Extra-articular manifestations
Skin: 
 • Inflammation of skin (esp. over areas of stress) forms
skin (esp. over areas ... friction rub audible Lungs ... inflammation tends to cause ... interstitial lung ... disease/pulmonary fibrosis
UIP
UIP is a histologic pattern of pulmonary fibrosis.
On a chest X-ray UIP manifests as a reticular
of pulmonary fibrosis ... On a chest X-ray ... at the lung bases ... #Clinical #Radiology ... UIP #Reticular #Interstitial