ground glass opacification

Etiology

• interstitial lung disease
  • interstitial pneumonia (diffuse ground glass opacities)
    • ground glass opacities typical of interstitial pneumonia may appear during an acute exacerbation of pulmonary fibrosis
  • smoking-related diffuse parenchymal lung disease
• hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• pneumocystis pneumonia
• cytomegalovirus (CMV) - diffuse
• bronchiolitis obliterans
• suberosis
• acute silicosis
• lung adenocarcinoma may present as solitary pulmonary nodule with ground glass opacification
• fat embolism in the context of trauma

Radiology

• chest X-ray or chest CT finding

More general terms

• abnormal imaging

More specific terms

• subsolid nodule