Computed tomography in opportunistic lung infections.
Chest radiography in two teenage boys, one with Wiscott-Aldrich's syndrome and one with acute lymphatic leucemia in remission showed increased interstitial pattern. In both computed tomography (CT) of the lungs showed heavy interstitial pneumonia, rather different in appearance but in both cases equal to the CT findings in opportunistic lung infections known from immunoincompetent patients with for instance pneumocystis carinii and/or cytomegalo virus infections. In both patients the CT findings led to lung biopsy establishing the etiologic agent.
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Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
D000293:Adolescent; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed