title: The role of high-resolution chest CT in the diagnosis of neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy - A rare form of pediatric interstitial lung disease.
abstract: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is rare in infancy or early childhood. Differentiating between the different types of ILD is important for reasons of treatment, monitoring of clinical course and prognosis. We present a case of a 5-month old female with tachypnea and hypoxemia. The clinical suspicion of neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (NEHI) was confirmed by high-resolution chest CT and subsequent lung biopsy. We conclude that high-resolution chest CT has characteristics findings that can be used as a non-invasive test to support the clinical diagnosis of neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, From the Division of Pediatric Radiology, University of California, Davis Medical Center Children's Hospital, 4860 Y St., Suite 3100 ACC, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas Ray
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Sanchez
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Yanhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, University of California, Davis Medical Center and Children's Hospital, Sacramento, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jhawar
keywords: High-resolution chest CT; Interstitial lung disease; Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy