Acute unilateral airspace opacification (differential)
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Acute unilateral airspace opacification is a subset of the differential diagnosis for airspace opacification.
Differential diagnosis
The exhaustive list of all possible causes would be huge, but a useful framework includes:
- pus, i.e. pulmonary infection
- fluid
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blood
- pulmonary contusion
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pulmonary haemorrhage
- anticoagulation
- bleeding diathesis
- Goodpasture syndrome
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emboli
- pulmonary embolism (PE)
- fat embolism
- amniotic fluid embolism: usually bilateral
- cells
-<strong>pus</strong>, i.e. <a title="Pulmonary infection" href="/articles/pulmonary-infection">pulmonary infection</a><ul>- +<strong>pus</strong>, i.e. <a href="/articles/pulmonary-infection">pulmonary infection</a><ul>
-<li><a href="/articles/fat-embolism">fat embolism</a></li>- +<li><a title="Pulmonary fat embolism" href="/articles/pulmonary-fat-embolism">fat embolism</a></li>
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