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3. Numerous bronchial-associated ground glass opacities
The thoracic CT scan is clearly abnormal with numerous rounded densities most of which have a bronchus in the center. The bronchi are well preserved and this would favor an acute pneumonitis over metastatic carcinoma although this is not diagnostic. A mosaic pattern is produced with interlobular and intralobular septal thickening (see July 2015 Pulmonary Case of the Month: A Crazy Case for an example). The halo sign occurs when a solid nodule is surrounded by a ground-glass opacity (see September 2015 Imaging Case of the Month for an example).
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