Imaging of Pulmonary Manifestations of Connective Tissue Disease.

Abstract

The majority of connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are multisystem disorders that are often heterogeneous in their presentation and do not have a single laboratory, histologic, or radiologic feature that is defined as the gold standard to support a specific diagnosis. Given this challenging situation, the diagnosis of CTD is a process that requires the synthesis of multidisciplinary data which may include patient clinical symptoms, serologic evaluation, laboratory testing, and imaging. Pulmonary manifestations of connective tissue disease include interstitial lung disease as well as multicompartmental manifestations. These CT imaging patterns and features of specific diseases will be discussed in this article.

• Authors: Kimberly Kallianos
• Journal: Radiologic clinics of North America (Radiol Clin North Am) Vol. 60 Issue 6 Pg. 915-924 (Nov 2022) ISSN: 1557-8275 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 36202478 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Topics

• Connective Tissue Diseases (complications, diagnostic imaging)
• Humans
• Lung (diagnostic imaging, pathology)
• Lung Diseases, Interstitial (diagnostic imaging, etiology)
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed (methods)