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Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
glass pattern can ... Radiology #Pulmonary #CTChest ... GroundGlassOpacity #GroundGlass ... #Differential #
High-Res Chest CT Patterns - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Reticular:
 • Septal Thickening: Lymphangitic Carcinoma, Interstitial Edema, Alveolar
High-Res Chest CT ... Patterns - Differential ... Sarcoidosis, NSIP, COP ... #CT #Patterns # ... Differential #Diagnosis
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
manifestations can ... symptomatology Differential ... high resolution chest ... CT • Bronchoscopy ... Renal #Syndrome #differential
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Community Acquired ... • Pleuritic chest ... Uremia (blood urea ... radiograph or CT ... Pulmonary #Community #Acquired
Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Pachymeningitis is a rare condition that causes areas of a layer
Pachymeningitis - Differential ... condition that causes areas ... This thickening can ... metastases CT ... thrombosis CT
Genital Ulcers - Atypical causes of genital ulcers that can be difficult to diagnose & manage.
genital ulcers that can ... sex, in endemic areas ... painless, in endemic areas ... , non-sexually acquired ... Atypical #causes #differential
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
-> 40 years • Can ... - gastric and breast ... Chest CT: • Ground-glass ... severe community-acquired
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
coagulopathy) • CBC w differential ... Other tests: • CT ... chest to evaluate ... CT ... Renal #Syndromes #differential
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
very remarkable w/differential ... GCA can present ... in literature (NEJM ... cases (Cornelia NEJM ... Can always stop
Broncholithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

 • Also known as: Lung stones, pulmoliths, pneumoliths, bronchial calculi
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Broncholithiasis - Differential ... Massive hemoptysis can ... CT • Bronchoscopy ... - Bronchoscopy can ... Broncholithiasis #Differential