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Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia chest x ray
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Findings on a chest X-ray in cryptogenic organizing pneumonia are consolidation, which may be unilateral/ bilateral, migratory and affects all lung zone.Foci of granulation tissue can also be seen.
Chest X Ray
Chest X Ray
- Findings on a chest X-ray :[1]
- Consolidation
- It could be unilateral or bilateral
- It is often migratory
- Affects all lung zone but usually peripheral, subpleural and peribronchovascular
- Foci of granulation tissue can be seen[2]
- Consolidation
References
References
- ↑ Cordier JF, Loire R, Brune J (November 1989). “Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. Definition of characteristic clinical profiles in a series of 16 patients”. Chest. 96 (5): 999–1004. PMID 2805873.
- ↑ Dr. Bruno Di Muzio and Dr. Ekta Dhamija et al. Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia.[Radiopedia.org]. Available at [1]. Accessed on March 7, 2016.
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