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Chronic airspace opacities (bilateral)

System: Chest
Section: Gamuts
Tag: lung

The differential for airspace opacities is very extensive, and needs to be interpreted in context of chronicity (previous imaging) and clinical context. An exhaustive list of all possible causes of chronic bilateral airspace opacities is long, but a useful framework is as follows:

  • Infective
    • tuberculosis
    • fungal (especially in immunocompromised)
    • incompletely treated infection
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