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Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
resolution of the HRCT ... predominance: Respiratory ... Radiology #Pulmonary #CTChest ... #GroundGlass #Differential ... #RadiologyAssistant
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP, earlier named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis) is a rare idiopathic lung disease characterized
aswell as the HRCT ... indistinguishable from acute respiratory ... The HRCT characteristics ... Clinical #Radiology #CTChest ... #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
UIP with honeycombing (left) and chronic HP (right)
Differential diagnosis of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.
Subacute stage:
- RB-ILD: seen in
(left) and chronic ... HP (right) Differential ... similar HRCT findings ... Diagnosis #Radiology #CTChest ... Fibrosis #Mimic #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (2)
The case on the left shows an inspiratory and expiratory scan: the mosaic
Chronic hypersensitivity ... scan, indicating air ... included in the differential ... Clinical #Radiology #CTChest ... HypersensitivityPneumonitis #Fibrosis #RadiologyAssistant
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Loss of weight • Chest ... wheezing, and inspiratory ... thickening, presence of air-fluid ... Diagnosis: • HRCT ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary #differential
Mosaic attenuation
The term 'mosaic attenuation' is used to describe density differences between affected and non-affected lung
adjacent to lung with air-trapping ... oligemic lung due to chronic ... Radiology #Pulmonary #CTChest ... #Attenuation #Differential ... #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a patient who is treated with cytotoxic drugs for a hematologic malignancy.
The radiographic
or fibrosis in chronic ... patients with a UIP ... disease in the differential ... Clinical #Radiology #CTChest ... DrugRelated #Fibrosis #RadiologyAssistant