High Resolution CT in interstitial lung disease

High Resolution CT (HRCT) is now a mature technique. It has brought several clinical benefits and increased our understanding of diffuse lung diseases over a relatively short period (compared to the rate at which knowledge was gained from chest radiography in the last century). Lernziele: The selection of topics that will be discussed are the impact that HRCT has had on the management of patients with diffuse lung disease, the changing relationship between histopathology and HRCT in formulating final diagnoses, new insights from HRCT about the individuality, or otherwise, of diffuse lung diseases; leading from t…