Collagen vascular disease-related lung disease: high-resolution computed tomography findings based on the pathologic classification.
Collagen vascular disease (CVD) can cause a variety of lung abnormalities, including usual interstitial pneumonia, nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, organizing pneumonia, diffuse alveolar damage, lymphoid interstitial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, constrictive bronchiolitis, follicular bronchiolitis, alveolar hemorrhage, pulmonary hypertension, and drug-induced lung disease. The frequency of each lung disease is different among underlying CVDs. Although high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings of lung disease are often nonspecific, there are some characteristic HRCT findings for some lung diseases based on pathologic findings.
Tanaka
Nobuyuki
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Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA. ntanaka@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
Newell
John D
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Brown
Kevin K
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Cool
Carlyne D
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Lynch
David A
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003095:Collagen Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*