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Miliary shadowing on the chest radiograph

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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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

  • neoplasm:
    • disseminated cancer metastases
    • alveolar cell carcinoma
    • lymphangitis carcinomatosa

  • post-viral pneumonia with miliary calcification:
    • especially varicella

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