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Airspace Disease
Parenchymal Lung
Disease
Soft-tissue opacities
With hazy and indistinct margins
Tend to respect segmental or lobar
boundaries May contain air
bronchograms
Airspace Disease
Pulmonary edema
Common Airspace
Diseases
Now referred to as
infiltrative lung disease
Discrete particles of disease
Inhomogeneous
Doesn’t respect lobar boundaries
Usually no air bronchograms
Made up of lines (reticular) or dots
(nodular) or both (reticulonodular)
Interstitial versus Airspace Disease
Cancer–1° or 2°
Sarcoidosis
Cystic fibrosis
Asbestosis
Right upper lobe mass is a
bronchogenic carcinoma.
It is sharply marginated,
relatively discrete,
contains no air
bronchograms. It began
in the interstitium of the
lung.
Interstitial Diseases
Examples of most nodular patterns
Hematogenously disseminated
metastatic disease, e.g. renal cell ca
Silicosis
Miliary tuberculosis
This is a diffuse
infiltrative
(interstitial) disease
that is composed
primarily of lines
(reticular disease).
Examples of mostly
reticular disease
include idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis
and eosinophilic
granuloma
Interstitial Diseases
Examples of mostly reticular
patterns
Alveolar proteinosis
Take Home Points
lung disease can be divided into airspace
and interstitial (infiltrative) patterns