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Here are the most common examples of these four patterns on a chest x-ray (click image
consolidation - Multifocal ill-defined ... opacities Nodule or mass ... Nodule - Multiple Masses ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... Consolidation #Patterns #RadiologyAssistant
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
BOOP • Type of interstitial ... Unknown • 6-7 cases ... - Imaging: • CXR ... BOOP #pulmonary #ILD ... #diagnosis #management
Lobar pneumonia
On the chest x-ray there is an ill-defined area of increased density in the right
x-ray there is an ill-defined ... weight loss or long ... caused by Streptcoccus ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #RadiologyAssistant
The idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) comprise a heterogenous group of disorders. 
They represent fundamental responses of
The idiopathic interstitial ... pneumonias (IIPs ... indicates unknown cause ... #ILD #Findings ... #RadiologyAssistant
Whenever you see an area of increased density within the lung, it must be the result
or multifocal ill-defined ... opacities. 2- Interstitial ... . 3- Nodule or mass ... Diagnosis #Radiology #CXR ... Consolidation #Patterns #RadiologyAssistant
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
densities in both lungs ... masses. ... of organizing pneumonia ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... OrganizingPneumonia #BOOP #RadiologyAssistant
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
determine the cause ... this is nodular interstitial ... lung disease, that ... Diagnosis #Radiology #CXR ... #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a chest film of a patient with UIP due to IPF.
The findings on
reticular densities caused ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... UsualInterstitialPneumonitis #Usual #Interstitial ... Pneumonitis #Reticular #ILD ... #RadiologyAssistant
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
Amiodarone Induced Lung ... Direct cytotoxic lung ... Exclude other causes ... Exclusion of other ILDs ... Pulmonary #diagnosis #management
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP, earlier named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis) is a rare idiopathic lung disease characterized
Acute interstitial ... pneumonia (AIP, ... rare idiopathic lung ... AcuteInterstitialPneumonia #ILD ... #RadiologyAssistant