Diagnostic Radiology/Chest Imaging/Interstitial Disease


 * 1) List and identify on a chest radiograph and chest CT four patterns of interstitial lung disease (ILD)
 * 2) Make a specific diagnosis of ILD when supportive findings are present in the history or on radiologic imaging (e.g. dilated esophagus and ILD in scleroderma, enlarged heart and a pacemaker or defibrillator in a patient with prior sternotomy and ILD suggesting amiodarone drug toxicity)
 * 3) Identify Kerley A and B lines on a chest radiograph and explain their etiology
 * 4) Recognize the changes of congestive heart failure on a chest radiograph - enlarged cardiac silhouette, pleural effusions, vascular redistribution, interstitial and/or alveolar edema, Kerley lines
 * 5) Define the terms ìasbestos-related pleural diseaseî and ìasbestosis;î identify each on a chest radiograph and chest CT
 * 6) Describe what a "B" reader is as related to the evaluation of pneumoconiosis
 * 7) Identify honeycombing on a radiograph and high resolution chest CT (HRCT), state the significance of this finding (end-stage lung disease), and list the common causes of honeycomb lung
 * 8) State the radiographic classification of sarcoidosis
 * 9) Recognize progressive massive fibrosis/conglomerate masses secondary to silicosis or coal worker's pneumoconiosis on radiography and chest CT
 * 10) Recognize the typical appearance of irregular lung cysts and/or nodules on chest CT of a patient with Langerhanís cell histiocytosis
 * 11) List four causes of unilateral ILD
 * 12) List three causes of lower lobe predominant ILD
 * 13) List two causes of upper lobe predominant ILD
 * 14) Identify a secondary pulmonary lobule on HRCT
 * 15) Identify lymphangioleiomyomatosis on a chest radiograph and HRCT
 * 16) Identify and give appropriate differential diagnoses when the patterns of septal thickening, perilymphatic nodules, bronchiolar opacities ("tree-in-bud"), air trapping, cysts, and ground glass opacities are seen on HRCT