Items tagged “infectiousdisease”

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Interstitial lung disease

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an umbrella term that encompasses a large number of disorders that are characterized by diffuse cellular infiltrates in a periacinar location. The spectrum of conditions included is broad, ranging from occasional self-limited inflammatory processes to severe de...
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Reticular and linear pulmonary opacification

In chest radiology, reticular and linear opacification refers to a broad subgroup of pulmonary opacification caused by a decrease in the gas to soft tissue ratio due to a pathological process centered in or around the pulmonary interstitium. This includes thickening of any of the interstitial co...
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Reticular interstitial pattern

Reticular interstitial pattern is one of the patterns of linear opacification in the lung. It can either mean a plain film or HRCT/CT feature.  Pathology Causes Reticulation can be subdivided by the size of the intervening pulmonary lucency into fine, medium and coarse. Diseases with a predom...
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Chlamydia pneumonia

  Diagnosis certain
Andrew Dixon
Published 05 Aug 2011
79% complete
X-ray
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Left upper lobe consolidation - pneumonia

  Diagnosis certain
Sajoscha A. Sorrentino
Published 11 Sep 2011
79% complete
X-ray
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Left lower lobe pneumonia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Sajoscha A. Sorrentino
Published 11 Sep 2011
57% complete
X-ray
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Pneumonia - right middle lobe

  Diagnosis certain
Sajoscha A. Sorrentino
Published 11 Sep 2011
79% complete
X-ray
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Pneumonia - right lower lobe

  Diagnosis almost certain
Sajoscha A. Sorrentino
Published 11 Sep 2011
57% complete
X-ray
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Pneumonia - right middle lobe

  Diagnosis certain
Sajoscha A. Sorrentino
Published 31 Oct 2011
82% complete
X-ray
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Sarcoidosis and concomitant pneumonia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Sajoscha A. Sorrentino
Published 31 Oct 2011
68% complete
X-ray CT
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Right upper lobe pneumonia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Roberto Schubert
Published 15 Dec 2011
60% complete
X-ray
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Middle lobe pneumonia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Roberto Schubert
Published 15 Dec 2011
50% complete
X-ray
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Middle lobe consolidation - pneumonia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Roberto Schubert
Published 03 Jan 2012
50% complete
X-ray
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Right lower and middle lobe pneumonia, middle lobe dystelectasis

  Diagnosis almost certain
Roberto Schubert
Published 12 Jan 2012
57% complete
X-ray
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Segmental pneumonia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Roberto Schubert
Published 24 Jan 2012
50% complete
X-ray
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Cerebellar abscess

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 05 Feb 2012
95% complete
MRI
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Interstitial lung pattern (radiograph)

An interstitial lung pattern is a regular descriptive term used when reporting a plain chest radiograph. It is the result of the age-old attempt to make the distinction between an interstitial and airspace (alveolar) process to narrow the differential diagnosis. A re-read of the timeless work o...
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Adult chest radiograph common exam pathology

Adult chest radiograph common exam pathology is essential to consider in the build up to radiology exams. The list of potential diagnoses is apparently endless, but there are some favorites that seem to appear with more frequency. When dealing with the adult chest radiograph in the exam setting...
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Diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage

Diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage (DPH) is a subtype of pulmonary hemorrhage where bleeding into the lung is diffuse (cf. focal pulmonary hemorrhage). If the bleeding is into the alveolar spaces, it can be further subclassified as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH). Epidemiology Associations pulmon...
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Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Praveen Jha
Published 31 Mar 2012
71% complete
CT

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