Recognizing Airspace Vs Interstitial Lung Disease

Question 1

Bronchi are mostly invisible? T or f

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Two main categories of lung diseases?

Answer 2

Airspace (alveolar) dse

Interstitial (infiltrative) dse

Question 3

Airspace disease produce abnormalities described as?

Answer 3

Fluffy
Cloud like or
Hazy
( tend to be confluent - margins are indistinct)

Question 4

The visibility of air in the bronchus because of surrounding airspace dse is called?

Answer 4

Air bronchograms

Question 5

Air bronchograms is a sign of … Dse?

Answer 5

Airspace

Question 6

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Pneumonia

Answer 6

Airspace

Question 7

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Pulmonary alveolar edema

Answer 7

Airspace

Question 8

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Hemorrhage

Answer 8

Airspace

Question 9

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Aspiration

Answer 9

Airspace

Question 10

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Near drowning

Answer 10

Airspace

Question 11

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Bronchoalveolar cell carcinoma

Answer 11

Airspace

Question 12

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Sarcoidosis

Answer 12

Airspace

Question 13

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Lymphoma

Answer 13

Airspace

Question 14

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Idiopathic pulmonary fiborosis

Answer 14

Interstitial

Question 15

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Pulmonary interstitial edema

Answer 15

Interstitial

Question 16

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Rheumatoid lung

Answer 16

Intstitial

Question 17

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Scleroderma

Answer 17

Interstitial

Question 18

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Metastasis

Answer 18

Interstitial

Question 19

Airspace vs interstitial lung disease:

Miliary tb

Answer 19

Interstitial

Question 20

If two objects of the same radiographic density touch each other, the edge or margins between them disappears.. Sign?

Answer 20

Silhouette sign

Question 21

Five basic densities?

Answer 21

Air
Fat
Soft tissue or fluid
Calcium/bone
Metal

Question 22

Interstitial lung disease have three patterns of presentation?

Answer 22

Reticular interstitial dse
Nodular
Reticulonodular

Question 23

Alveolar pulmonary edema classically produces bilateral perihilar airspace disease described as?

Answer 23

Bat-wing or angel-wing configuration

Question 24

Predominantly reticular interstitial lung disease?

Answer 24

Pulmonary interstitial edema
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Rheumatoid lung

Question 25

Predominantly nodular interstitial lung disease?

Answer 25

Brochogenic carcinoma

Mets of the lungs

Question 26

Mixed reticulonodular interstitial lung diseases?

Answer 26

Sarcoidosis

Question 27

Characteristics of interstitial lung disease?

Answer 27

Has discrete reticular, nodular, reticulonodular opacities
Packets of disease are separated by normal appearing lung
Margins of packets are sharp and delineated
Usually no airbronchograms are present

Question 28

Pulmonary interstitial edema is the precursor of what?

Answer 28

Alveolar edema

Question 29

Pulmonary interstitial edema manifest 4 key radiologic signs?

Answer 29

Fluid in the fissures (major and minor)
Peribronchial cuffing (fluid in the walls of the bronchioles)
Pleural effusions and
Kerley B lines

Question 30

Four major cell types of bronchogenic carcinoma

Answer 30

Adenocarcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
Small cell carcinoma
Large cell cercinoma

Question 31

Adenocarcinoma can present as a solitary peripheral pulmonary nodule

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Mets to the lung can be divided into three categories depending on the pattern of disease demonstrated in the lung…?

Answer 32

Hematogenous metastasis. -> cannonball mets
Lymphangitic spread
Direct extension

Question 33

Virtually all the white lines you see in xray are blood vessels? T or f

Answer 33

True