Isolated diffuse ground-glass opacity in thoracic CT: Causes and clinical presentations

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 613-622

  Miller Jr , Wallace T ^a   Shah, Rosita M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DESQUAMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG NODULE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUTROPENIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SARCOIDOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 15944387039     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.2.01840613     Document Type: Review

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