chronic eosinophilic pneumonia has consolidation with peripheral predominance

• related: acute and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia AEP and CEP
• tags: #permanent

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• predominance for upper and middle lobes ¹

• Bilateral in 50% of case on normal CT and up to 97% on HRCT
• upper lobe predominant, lower lung involvement is infrequent
• pleural effusions are infrequent unlike AEP [^2]

Links to this note

• An Algorithmic Approach to Lung Disease
  • chronic eosinophilic pneumonia has consolidation with peripheral predominance
• acute and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia AEP and CEP
  • chronic eosinophilic pneumonia has consolidation with peripheral predominance

Footnotes

1. https://radiopaedia.org/articles/chronic-eosinophilic-pneumonia?lang=us [2]: Murray and Nadel Ch 96 Eosinophilic Lung Disease ↩