Revise Radiology Resp Flashcards
Geographic ground glass with smooth interlobular septal thickening
PAP (Crazy paving)
NF1 lung findings
Lower zone fibrosis,
Thin walled bullae in upper zones
Acute interstitial pneumonia
Bilateral ground glass opacities and consolidation lower lobe predominence, sparing costophrenic angles.
Late phase: traction bronchiectasis and honeycombing
Cryptogenic organising pneumonia
Patchy consolitation and ground glass, peripheral and peribronchial distribution
Langerhand cell histiocytosis
Young smoker, bizarre shaped cysts in upper lobes
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
HIV pts on HAART, exagerated inflammatory response to previously subclinical infection.
Increased inflammatory changes and lymph nodes
Sarcoid
Bilateral perilymphatic nodules, mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy
Kaposi sarcoma
Multiple perilymphatic and peribronchovascular nodules
Desquamative interstitial pneumonia
Smokers, diffuse ground glass in lower lobes with minimal reticulation
Post transplant lymphoproliferative disorder
Well circumscribed mass with air bronchograms and moderate PET uptake (first few years post transplant)
LCH vs LAM
LCH shows nodules in addition to cysts, predominantly upper and mid zones
LAM shows thin walled cysts only, diffusely spread
“Comet tail sign”
Round atelectasis
Ranke complex
Calcified granuloma (Ghon) plus calcified hilar node
Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica
Irregular nodular thickening of tracheal cartilage or osseous nodules in tracheal submucosa, sparing posterior wall
Enhancing lesion in lumen of central airway
Typical carcinoid
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Coarse reticulation in random distribution with ground glass opacity and air trapping in mid to lower zones
Superior mediastinal mass with sharp border with adjacent lung below
Retrosternal goitre
CT chest protocols to assess ILD
Prone inspiration and supine expiration scans
RBILD
Upper lobe predominant centrilobular ground glass nodules, smoker
6mm nodule in high risk pt (smoker)
3 month CT follow up
Sarcoid (chest) staging
Stage 1: Hilar/mediastinal nodes only
Stage 2: Nodal enlargement and parenchymal disease
Stage 3: Parenchymal disease only
Stage 4: End stage lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis)
sarcoid distribution
Mid to upper zones
medullary thyroid carcinoma chest findings
Bullae and fibrosis
Acute eosinophilic pneumonia
Diffuse ground glass opacities with interlobular septal thickening
Straight edge sign
UIP (clear demarcation of fibrosis inferiorly and clear lung superioly)
PA/Aorta > 1
Pulmonary hypertension
Mediastinal pleural thickening
Suggests malignant mesotheloima
RA associated interstitial lung disease pattern
UIP
Pneumothorax on ultrasound
Loss of lung sliding and Z lines.
Presence of A lines extending into the the far field
Lung nodule follow up
> 8mm: Low risk - CT 3 months, high risk: PET
Welder, interstitial lung disease
Siderosis
Birt Hogg Dube lung findings
Thin walled, lower lobe cysts, oval cysts
Ix for anterior mediastinal mass on CT
Biopsy
AIDS lymphoma subtype
High grade, NHL, B cell