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- Title
Differential diagnoses of acute ground-glass opacity in chest computed tomography: pictorial essay.
- Authors
Justi Rosa de Matos, Marina; Egypto Rosa, Marcela Emer; Mizubuti Brito, Vanessa; Wada Amaral, Lucas Tadashi; Laverdi Beraldo, Gabriel; Ururahy Nunes Fonseca, Eduardo Kaiser; Caruso Chate, Rodrigo; Duarte Passos, Rodrigo Bastos; Almeida Silva, Murilo Marques; Yokoo, Patrícia; Sasdelli Neto, Roberto; Borges da Silva Teles, Gustavo; Carolina Bueno da Silva, Marina; Szarf, Gilberto
- Abstract
Ground-glass opacity is a very frequent and unspecified finding in chest computed tomography. Therefore, it admits a wide range of differential diagnoses in the acute context, from viral pneumonias such as influenza virus, coronavirus disease 2019 and cytomegalovirus and even non-infectious lesions, such as vaping, pulmonary infarction, alveolar hemorrhage and pulmonary edema. For this diagnostic differentiation, ground glass must be correlated with other findings in imaging tests, with laboratory tests and with the patients’ clinical condition. In the context of a pandemic, it is extremely important to remember the other pathologies with similar findings to coronavirus disease 2019 in the imaging exams.
- Subjects
DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; COMPUTED tomography; PNEUMONIA diagnosis; PULMONARY edema; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS diseases; PULMONARY infarction
- Publication
Einstein (16794508), 2021, Vol 19, p1
- ISSN
1679-4508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31744/einstein_journal/2021RW5772