Fundamentals of High-Resolution Lung CT : Common Findings, Common Patterns, Common Diseases and Differential Diagnosis.

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Chapter Summaries -- Section 1 HRCT Findings -- Chapter 1 HRCT Indications, Technique, Radiation Dose, and Normal Anatomy -- Introduction -- Indications for HRCT -- HRCT Techniques -- HRCT and Radiation Dose -- Recommendations for HRCT Technique -- Normal Anatomy on HRCT -- Chapter 2 Reticular Opacities -- Interlobular Septal Thickening -- Honeycombing -- Intralobular Interstitial Thickening -- Nonspecific or Irregular Reticulation -- A General Approach to the Diagnosis of Possible Fibrotic Lung Disease -- Chapter 3 Nodular Lung Disease -- Introduction -- Craniocaudal Distribution of Nodules -- Appearance and Attenuation of Nodules -- Distribution of Nodules Relative to Lung Structures -- An Approach to Diagnosis of Nodular Lung Disease -- Chapter 4 Increased Lung Attenuation: Ground Glass Opacity and Consolidation -- Introduction -- Ground Glass Opacity -- Consolidation -- Differential Diagnosis Based on Whether GGO or Consolidation Is Present -- Chapter 5 Decreased Lung Attenuation: Emphysema, Mosaic Perfusion, and Cystic Lung Disease -- Introduction -- Emphysema -- Mosaic Perfusion -- The Headcheese Sign -- Cystic Lung Disease -- Section 2 Specific Diseases -- Chapter 6 Airways Diseases -- Introduction -- Large Airways (Bronchial) Diseases -- Small Airways (Bronchiolar) Diseases -- Chapter 7 Pulmonary Vascular Diseases and Pulmonary Hemorrhage -- Pulmonary Hypertension -- Vasculitis -- Pulmonary Hemorrhage -- Miscellaneous Vascular Diseases -- Chapter 8 Pulmonary Edema, Acute Lung Injury, Diffuse Alveolar Damage, and the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -- Pulmonary Edema -- Chapter 9 The Interstitial Pneumonias -- Introduction -- Classification -- HRCT in the IPs -- Usual Interstitial Pneumonia -- Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia.

Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia -- Organizing Pneumonia -- Acute Interstitial Pneumonia -- Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonia -- Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis -- Chapter 10 Connective Tissue Diseases -- Introduction -- A General Approach to Diagnosis -- Patterns of Diffuse Lung Disease -- HRCT Findings in Specific CTDs -- Chapter 11 Smoking-Related Lung Disease -- Introduction -- RB and DIP -- Emphysema -- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis -- Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia -- Fibrotic Lung Disease -- Chapter 12 Sarcoidosis -- Introduction -- Staging of Sarcoidosis -- Lung Abnormalities in Sarcoidosis -- Lymphadenopathy -- Chapter 13 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Eosinophilic Lung Disease -- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis -- Eosinophilic Lung Diseases -- Chapter 14 Pulmonary Infections -- Introduction -- Role of HRCT in Infection -- Clinical Considerations -- HRCT Findings of Infection -- Bacterial Infections -- Rare Bacterial Infections -- Mycobacterial Infections -- Fungal Infection -- Atypical Infections -- Chapter 15 Complications of Medical Treatment: Drug-Induced Lung Disease and Radiation -- Drug-Induced Lung Disease -- Radiation -- Chapter 16 Pneumoconioses -- Introduction -- General Approach to Diagnosis -- Pneumoconiosis Patterns on HRCT -- Chapter 17 Neoplastic and Lymphoproliferative Diseases -- Introduction -- Pulmonary Malignancies: Mechanism of Spread -- Invasive Mucinous Adenocarcinoma -- Kaposi Sarcoma -- Pulmonary Lymphoma -- Lymphoproliferative Disease -- Leukemia -- Chapter 18 Rare Diseases -- Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis -- Lipoid Pneumonia -- Amyloidosis -- Light Chain Deposition Disease -- Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis -- Erdheim-Chester Disease -- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis -- Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome -- Index.

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