Thin-Section CT Findings in 32 Immunocompromised Patients with Cytomegalovirus Pneumonia Who Do Not Have AIDS
Tomás Franquet1,2,
Kyung S. Lee3 and
Nestor L. Müller1
1 Department of Radiology, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center and
University of British Columbia, 855 W. 12th Ave., Vancouver BC V5Z 1M9,
Canada.
2 Present address: Department of Radiology, Hospital de Sant Pau, Universitat
Autónoma de Barcelona, Avda. Sant Antoni M. Claret 167, Barcelona
08025, Spain.
3 Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University
School of Medicine, 50 Ilwon-dong, Kangnam-ku, Seoul 135-710, Korea.

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Fig. 1. 28-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia and bone marrow
transplant. Thin-section (1-mm collimation) CT scan shows multifocal patchy
areas of ground-glass attenuation and poorly defined centrilobular nodules in
both lungs.
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Fig. 2. 23-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia and bone marrow
transplant. CT scan obtained at level of carina shows diffuse ground-glass
attenuation and multiple poorly defined centrilobular opacities in both
lungs.
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Fig. 3. 25-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia and bone marrow
transplant. Thin-section (1-mm collimation) CT scan shows multiple scattered
poorly defined centrilobular nodules. Focal areas of ground-glass attenuation
are also visible.
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Fig. 4. 32-year-old man with aplastic anemia and bone marrow
transplant. Thin-section (1-mm collimation) CT scan shows multiple scattered
bilateral lung nodules surrounded by halo of ground-glass attenuation.
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Fig. 5. 45-year-old man who underwent heart transplantation.
Thin-section (1-mm collimation) CT scan obtained at level of lung bases shows
multiple scattered lung nodules in both lungs and peripheral patchy areas of
consolidation in left lower lobe.
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Fig. 6. 52-year-old man who underwent liver transplantation.
Thin-section (1-mm collimation) CT scan obtained at level of carina shows
multiple peripheral lobular areas of consolidation in both lungs.
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Fig. 7A. 23-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia and bone marrow
transplant. Thin-section (1-mm collimation) CT scan obtained at level of
aortic arch shows poorly marginated peripheral nodule in right upper lobe.
Note small left pleural effusion.
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Fig. 7B. 23-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia and bone marrow
transplant. CT scan obtained at level of inferior pulmonary veins shows focal
area of consolidation surrounded by ground-glass opacity in left lower lobe.
Angioinvasive pulmonary aspergillosis was suspected.
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Fig. 8. 51-year-old man with chronic myelogenous leukemia and bone
marrow transplant. Thin-section (1-mm collimation) CT scan shows poorly
defined centrilobular nodules and peripheral tree-in-bud opacities.
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