Interstial Lung Disease – How Do I Differentiate it?

Kurzfassung:

Differentiation of various interstitial lung diseases with CT is made from the point of both the pattern recognition and the location of abnormalities in lobules. Patterns of abnormalities include linear and reticular opacities, nodules, parenchymal opacification, cysts, and decreased lung attenuation. From the point of the locations in secondary lobules, abnormalities on CT were categorized centrilobular, perilobuloar, panlobular, and random distributions. In this lecture, the clues for the differentiation of various interstitial lung diseases will be mentioned from above two points views. Then, precise radiologic-pathologic correlation of various interstitial abnormalities will be shown in order to let you understand characteristic CT findings of various interstitial lung diseases