title: Diffuse pulmonary abnormalities: clinical correlations.
abstract: The clinical correlations of diffuse pulmonary opacities, visible on the chest X-ray, are reviewed and the main diagnostic investigations outlined. Clinically the patients are classified into those with fever; those with no symptoms; those with cough, malaise and loss of weight, but no fever; and those with dyspnoea as the main symptom. The possible diseases giving rise to each group of manifestations are reviewed and the differential diagnosis discussed.
mesh_terms: D001835:Body Weight; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008722:Methods; D011859:Radiography