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Table 3 Patterns of lung involvement and predominance according to visual high-resolution CT analysis

From: Potential role of CT-textural features for differentiation between viral interstitial pneumonias, pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in early stages of disease: a proof of principle

 

GGO

Crazy-paving

Centrilobular nodules/ Tree in bud

Thickening of bronchial wall

Reticulation

Air-space consolidation

Peripheral vs. central zone

Dominant pattern

Alveolar hemorrhages (A)

14/14 (100%)

9/14 (64.2%)

9/14 (64.2%)

3/14 (21.4%)

10/14 (71.4%)

11/14 (78.5%)

8/14 zentral (57.1%)

air-space consolidation (5/14, 35.7%)

PJP (B)

19/21 (90.4%)

10/21 (47.6%)

6/21 (28.5%)

4/21 (19.0%)

4/21 (19.0%)

14/21 (66.6%)

13/21 peripher (61.9%)

GGO (7/21, 33.3%)

Virus pneumonia (C)

9/11 (81.8%)

6/11 (54.5%)

7/11 (63.6%)

2/11 (18.1%)

3/11 (27.2%)

5/11 (45.4%)

10/11 peripher (90.9%)

air-space consolidation (4/11, 36.3%)

  1. Abbreviations: GGO ground-glass opacity, PJP pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia