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Lung cavity; Other names: Pulmonary cavity, lung cavitary lesion, lung cavitation: Chest X-ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis: Infection in both lungs is marked by white arrow-heads, and the formation of a cavity is marked by black arrows. Specialty: Pulmonology: Complications: Aspergilloma: Causes: Tuberculosis, Lung cancer
Necrotizing pneumonia (NP), also known as cavitary pneumonia or cavitatory necrosis, is a rare but severe complication of lung parenchymal infection. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In necrotizing pneumonia, there is a substantial liquefaction following death of the lung tissue, which may lead to gangrene formation in the lung.
Differential diagnoses – other conditions that could cause similar symptoms as pneumatocele include lung cancer, tuberculosis, [7] and a lung abscess [1] in the setting of hyper IgE syndrome (aka Job's syndrome), as a complication of COVID-19 pneumonitis, [8] or on its own, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus infection during cystic fibrosis.
The development of PMF is usually associated with a restrictive ventilatory defect on pulmonary function testing. PMF can be mistaken for bronchogenic carcinoma and vice versa. PMF lesions tend to grow very slowly, so any rapid changes in size, or development of cavitation, should prompt a search for either alternative cause or secondary disease.
The differential of TO includes amyloidosis, which is typically circumferential, papillomatosis, though this usually occurs in younger patients and can cause lung cavitation when disseminated, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, though this is circumferential as well and often involves distal lung cavitation as well.
The differential diagnosis for ground-glass opacities is broad. General etiologies include infections, interstitial lung diseases, pulmonary edema, pulmonary hemorrhage, and neoplasm. A correlation of imaging with a patient's clinical features is useful in narrowing the diagnosis. [6] [7] GGOs can be seen in normal lungs. Upon expiration there ...
Differential diagnosis: Lung bullae, [3] hemothorax [2] ... It is often called a "collapsed lung", ... or entire lung, around a cavitating lesion. This was known as ...
The tree-in-bud sign is a nonspecific imaging finding that implies impaction within bronchioles, the smallest airway passages in the lung. The differential for this finding includes malignant and inflammatory etiologies, either infectious or sterile.