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Here are the most common examples of these four patterns on a chest x-ray (click image
Lobar consolidation ... Nodule - Multiple Masses ... Atelectasis #Diagnosis #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR ... #Patterns #RadiologyAssistant
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
to look at the pattern ... pneumonia caused ... The old name is BOOP ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... Differential #Table #RadiologyAssistant
Lobar pneumonia
On the chest x-ray there is an ill-defined area of increased density in the right
weight loss or long ... of chronic consolidation ... pneumonia caused ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Pneumonia #RadiologyAssistant
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
determine the cause ... nodular interstitial lung ... #Radiology #CXR ... #Lobar #Consolidation ... #Causes #RadiologyAssistant
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
densities in both lungs ... multiple ill-defined masses ... also known as BOOP ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #RadiologyAssistant
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
pneumonia • formerly BOOP ... Unknown • 6-7 cases ... Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... and GG pattern, ... zone, GGO, small
Pulmonary sequestration
This is an uncommon cause of lobar consolidation.
It is a congenital abnormality.
A nonfunctioning part of
is an uncommon cause ... of lobar consolidation ... nonfunctioning part of the lung ... #Clinical #Radiology ... PulmonarySequestration #RadiologyAssistant
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 ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #GroundGlass #GGO ... #RadiologyAssistant
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP, earlier named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis) is a rare idiopathic lung disease characterized
rare idiopathic lung ... The histologic pattern ... diffuse or patchy consolidation ... #Clinical #Radiology ... AcuteInterstitialPneumonia #ILD #RadiologyAssistant