Radiological Manifestations of Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Congress:

ESTI 2014

Poster Number:

P-0035

Type:

Educational Poster

Keywords:

Thorax, Respiratory system, Lung, CT, CT-High Resolution, Conventional radiography, Imaging sequences, Pathology

Authors:

C. Ball¹, P. McParland², K. Jayawardhana², A. Wallis²; ¹London/UK, ²Portsmouth/UK

DOI:

10.1594/esti2014/P-0035

DOI-Link:

https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/esti2014/P-0035

Background

Aspergillosis is a mycotic infection typically caused by Aspergillus fumigatus though other aspergillus specifies may be implicated.

Pulmonary involvement is broadly classified into invasive and non-invasive disease.

Chest radiography and chest computed tomography (CT) play an important role in the investigation of this respiratory pathogen because the main portal of entry of the spores is via the lung. Radiologists must therefore be able to distinguish the various forms of aspergillus infection as this impacts on clinical management.