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Lobar Consolidation

October 21st, 2019
 
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Overview

  • Look For

  • Consolidation of a single pulmonary lobe, without crossing any pleural lines.
  • Causes of Lobar consolidation

  • Lobar pneumonia
  • Neoplasm - lung cancer, lymphoma
  • Vascular - pulmonary haemorrhage, pulmonary infarction
  • Cryptogenic organising pneumonia
  • Eosinophilic pneumonia
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Example

  • Right middle lobe consolidation in a patient with lobar pneumonia - PA film
  • Right middle lobe consolidation in a patient with lobar pneumonia - PA film
     
  • Right middle lobe consolidation in a patient with lobar pneumonia - lateral film
  • Right middle lobe consolidation in a patient with lobar pneumonia - lateral film
     
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