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Rheumatoid Arthritis Summary
Overview: chronic, inflammatory symmetric polyarthritis involving small joints of hands/feet, knees, shoulders
Signs & Symptoms:
knees, shoulders Signs ... deformities, rheumatoid nodules ... Arthritis #diagnosis #management
The distribution of nodules shown on HRCT is the most important factor in making an accurate
diagnosis in the nodular ... distribution, nodules ... Nodules are almost ... centrilobular nodules ... most peripheral nodules
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Definition: Overwhelming clinical syndrome associated with excessive macrophage activation and cytokine storm due to
Diagnosis: HLH signs ... spleen, lymph node ... Lymphohistiocytosis #diagnosis #management
Pulmonary Nodule
Evaluation is guided by nodule size & assessment of probability of malignancy. In addition is
Pulmonary Nodule ... Pulmonary nodules ... Subsolid nodules ... Nodules that are ... Management options
On the left some diseases with a nodular pattern.
1. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: ill defined centrilobular nodules.
2. Miliary
diseases with a nodular ... centrilobular nodules ... Sarcoidosis: nodules ... centrilobular nodules ... Sarcoidosis: nodules
Nodular pattern
1. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: ill defined centrilobular nodules.
2. Miliary TB: random nodules
3. Sarcoidosis: nodules with perilymphatic
Nodular pattern ... centrilobular nodules ... Miliary TB: random nodules ... Sarcoidosis: nodules ... centrilobular nodules
Algorithm for nodular pattern
The algorithm to distinguish perilymphatic, random and centrilobular nodules is the following:
- Look
Algorithm for nodular ... centrilobular nodules ... . - If pleural nodules ... . - If pleural nodules ... and also nodules
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
Diagnosis and Management ... pernio, papules, nodules ... Sarcoidosis #Diagnosis #Management ... #Signs #Symptoms
Here are the most common examples of these four patterns on a chest x-ray (click image
opacities - Fine Nodular ... interstitial opacities Nodule ... Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
Eosinophilic Bronchitis - Bronchoscopy revealed diffuse nodules in the tracheobronchial mucosa (Panel A). Biopsy of a
revealed diffuse nodules ... Biopsy of a nodule ... the size of the nodules