Tags
- Nonspecific finding on CT scans that indicates a partial filling of air spaces by exudate or transudate, as well as interstitial thickening or partial collapse of lung alveoli
- DDx:
- Pulmonary oedema
- Infections (Cytomegalovirus & Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia)
- Various non-infection: Interstitial lung diseases (e.g. hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Hamman-Rich syndrome)
- Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage
- Crytogenic organizing pneumonia