Pulmonary vasculitis: the spectrum of radiological findings

Br J Radiol. 2000 Nov;73(875):1224-31. doi: 10.1259/bjr.73.875.11144805.

Abstract

Pulmonary vasculitis includes various disease entities with a wide range of clinical presentations and overlapping imaging features. Radiological findings of vasculitis in the angiitis-granulomatosis group are nodular and patchy opacities, whereas the principal feature of those diseases causing widespread capillaritis is diffuse air space consolidation. Aneurysms or stenoses of pulmonary arteries are seen in patients with Takayasu arteritis or Behçet's disease.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Arteritis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Behcet Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
  • Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging*
  • Takayasu Arteritis / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed