Pneumonia represents a disease with significant epidemiological, clinical and also economical relevance. Diagnostic imaging is important for detection, differentiation and follow up of pneumonic infiltration. However morphology of pulmonary infiltration is unspecific, even with computed tomography (CT). Therefore determination of the underlying agent with imaging is generally limited and non infectious differential diagnosis has to be considered. Knowledge of special manifestations, distribution patterns and differential diagnoses of pneumonic infiltrations and consideration of clinical aspects is essential to narrow differential diagnosis and spectrum of infectious agents. CT of the chest is particularly important in opportunistic infections and in patients under intensive medical treatment.
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PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America.
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JAMA
January 2025
CRIMM, Center Research and Innovation of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, University of Florence, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy.
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January 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Objective: Ciliary body medulloepithelioma (CBME), a pediatric intraocular tumor with potential for locally aggressive behavior and metastasis, may present with a diverse spectrum of clinical and histopathologic features leading to diagnostic and management challenges. Examination of unusual CBME cases highlights challenges and modern diagnostic techniques which facilitate accurate diagnosis and guide management.
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Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep
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