Miliary shadowing on the chest radiograph
Causes include:
- miliary TB
- sarcoidosis
- pulmonary oedema
- pulmonary haemosiderosis:
- idiopathic
- due to mitral stenosis
- fibrosing lung disease:
- rheumatoid lung
- fibrosing alveolitis
- systemic sclerosis
- coalworker's pneumoconiosis
- silicosis
- hypersensitivity:
- extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- neoplasm:
- disseminated cancer metastases
- alveolar cell carcinoma
- lymphangitis carcinomatosa
- post-viral pneumonia with miliary calcification:
- especially varicella
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