Series of rare lung diseases mimicking imaging patterns of common diffuse parenchymal lung diseases

Series of rare lung diseases mimicking imaging patterns of common diffuse parenchymal lung diseases

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Diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLDs) encompass a Hand Axes variety of restrictive and obstructive lung pathologies.In this article, the authors discuss a series of rare pulmonary entities and their high-resolution computed tomography imaging appearances, which can mimic more commonly encountered patterns of DPLDs.These cases highlight the importance of surgical lung biopsies in patients with imaging findings that do Windsocks not show typical imaging features of usual interstitial pneumonia.