title: Noninfectious inflammatory lung disease: imaging considerations and clues to differential diagnosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Noninfectious inflammatory lung diseases represent a spectrum of idiopathic and secondary conditions that may involve the airspaces, vasculature, or interstitium. The most important clinical and pathologic characteristics are reviewed, emphasizing CT findings and potential clues to differential diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Noninfectious inflammatory lung diseases translate into various CT appearances that are important in making the correct diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Stefan Franz
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Nemec
authors.forename: Ronald L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.forename: Alexander A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Bankier
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers