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Show Your Best. Kolapo DaSilva. Identify Lines and Tubes. What Do you See?. Ground Glass Opacity. Definition (from radiopedia.org)

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  1. Show Your Best Kolapo DaSilva

  2. Identify Lines and Tubes

  3. What Do you See?

  4. Ground Glass Opacity Definition (from radiopedia.org) “Hazy areas of increased attenuation in the lung that have preservation of bronchial and vascular markings (Austin et al, 1996). Air bronchograms may be seen in areas of GGO. Ground-glass opacities can be caused by normal expiration, partial filling of air spaces, partial collapse of alveoli, interstitial thickening, inflammation, edema, fibrosis, and lepidic proliferation of neoplasm.” • DDx • Pulmonary edema/hemorrhage • Neoplasm • Focal interstitial fibrosis • Interstitial pneumonias: BOOP, COP, et al • Less common: Wegener granulomatosis, Henoch-Schönleinpurpura

  5. References • Warnock M L, McCowin M J. Practical Pathology of Chest Disease--Case Studies. Case 29. http://pathhsw5m54.ucsf.edu/case29/radiology29.html#answer2 • Radiopedia.org. http://radiopaedia.org/articles/ground-glass_opacity

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