OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to present the first chest radiographic and CT descriptions of organizing pneumonia in response to smoking synthetic marijuana. CONCLUSION: Chest radiographs showed a diffuse miliary-micronodular pattern. Chest CT images showed diffuse centrilobular nodules and tree-in-bud pattern and a histopathologic pattern of organizing pneumonia with or without patchy acute alveolar damage. This distinct imaging pattern should alert radiologists to include synthetic marijuana abuse in the differential diagnosis.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to present the first chest radiographic and CT descriptions of organizing pneumonia in response to smoking synthetic marijuana. CONCLUSION: Chest radiographs showed a diffuse miliary-micronodular pattern. Chest CT images showed diffuse centrilobular nodules and tree-in-bud pattern and a histopathologic pattern of organizing pneumonia with or without patchy acute alveolar damage. This distinct imaging pattern should alert radiologists to include synthetic marijuana abuse in the differential diagnosis.
Authors: Johannes Raedler; Hannes Hoelz; Anna Zschocke; Judith Loeffler-Ragg; Marco Paolini; Julia Ley-Zaporozhan; Matthias Griese Journal: Diagnostics (Basel) Date: 2022-07-07
Authors: Seth J Kligerman; Fernando U Kay; Constantine A Raptis; Travis S Henry; Jacob W Sechrist; Christopher M Walker; Daniel Vargas; Peter D Filev; Michael S Chung; Subba R Digumarthy; Alan M Ropp; Tan-Lucien Mohammed; Kristen W Pope; Kaitlin M Marquis; Jonathan H Chung; Jeffrey P Kanne Journal: Chest Date: 2021-05-03 Impact factor: 9.410