[High-resolution x-ray computed tomography in lymphoid interstitial pneumonia].
Three patients with lymphoid interstitial pneumonia (two HIV 1+ patients with chronic lymphadenopathic syndromes and one with a not-characterized autoimmune disease) have been studied with high-resolution computed tomography (HR-CT). This technique reveals septal lines, small reticulonodular opacities, polyhedral micronodular opacities, "ground-glass" opacities and a dense, subpleural, curved broken line in one patient. The lesions dominate in the bases of the lungs. They are not characteristic for lymphoid interstitial pneumonia. If a patient present with a chronic lymphadenopathic syndrome, the diagnosis of an opportunistic infection should not be automatically made, since the syndrome can be caused by lymphoid interstitial pneumonia.
Vilgrain
V
V
Service de Radiologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris.
Frija
J
J
Yana
C
C
Couderc
L J
LJ
David
M
M
Clauvel
J P
JP
Laval-Jeantet
M
M
D000328:Adult; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes; D008297:Male; D010950:Plasma Cells; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tomodensitométrie en haute résolution de la pneumonie lymphoïde interstitielle.