straight edge sign differentiates between NSIP and IPF

• related: NSIP nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis
• tags: #literature #pulmonology

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• NSIP straight edge sign is confined to lower lung fields
• IPF lacks straight edge sign (fibrosis creeps up the lateral edges of the lungs)¹

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• chest imaging
  • straight edge sign differentiates between NSIP and IPF
• NSIP nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis
  • straight edge sign differentiates between NSIP and IPF

Footnotes

1. https://emcrit.org/ibcc/nsip/ ↩