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Pneumonia is the most frequent acute complication of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In patients with emphysema consolidation of the pulmonary tissue caused by pneumonia may look nonuniformly “perforated” so forming the “Swiss cheese” appearance (↑). The presence of emphysema often leads to wrong diagnosis of interstitial lung disease in such cases.
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Pneumonia is the most frequent acute complication of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In patients with emphysema consolidation of the pulmonary tissue caused by pneumonia may look nonuniformly “perforated” so forming the “Swiss cheese” appearance (↑). The presence of emphysema often leads to wrong diagnosis of interstitial lung disease in such cases.
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Yudin, A. (2014). Swiss Cheese Appearance. In: Metaphorical Signs in Computed Tomography of Chest and Abdomen. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04013-4_12
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