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Interstitial and line shadowing

The interstitium is the support structure for the working part of the lungs, a large area interface between blood and air. It comprises vessels lymphatics and connective tissue that is arranged around the numerous pouches of air (the alveoli). This document merely lists those case where the interstitium is thickened enough to be a visible pattern on the chest X-ray. Fluid in the interstitum of the lung is discussed in more detail, elsewhere.

Various anatomic expressions of pathology.


[View large image] Scleroderma (case report) 
[View large image] Histiocytosis X (case report)

[View large image] Cystic fibrosis (case report) 
[View large image] Silicosis septal lines (case report)

[View large image] Acute pulmonary oedema (case report) [View large image] Resolving pneumonia psittacosis (case report)
[View large image] Lymphangitis carcinomatosa (case report) 
[View large image] Silicosis (case report)
[View large image] fibrosis in silicosis (case report) [View large image] fibrosis in silicosis with cavitation (case report)
[View large image] Coal miner's pneumoconiosis (case report) [View large image] Coal miner's pneumoconiosis (case report)
[View large image] Siderosis (Simon case) [View large image] Siderosis and silicosis (case report)

[View large image] Asbestosis lower zone fibrosis (case report) [View large image] Asbestosis (Simon case)
[View large image] Asbestosis mesothelioma, old TB. (case report)

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Idiopathic pulmonary Haemosiderosis (case report)
[View large image] Fibrosing alveolitis (case report) [View large image] Fibrosing alveolitis (case report)
[View large image] Fibrosing Alveolitis Reticulo-nodular (case report) [View large image] Fibrosing Alveolitis Honeycombe lung (case report)
[View large image] Fibrosis non-specific with some oedema (case report) Bronchiectasis (not interstitial, but included for its lines)
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IDM June 2006