Soft tissue opacity in lung means what? Please suggest.

Question

Soft tissue on chest X ray means the tissues from the bony cage and outer skin. Opacity in these area may be due to lipomas, lymph nodes or abscesses.

Satyadeo Choubey · Accepted Answer

Soft tissue on chest X ray means the tissues from the bony cage and outer skin. Opacity in these area may be due to lipomas, lymph nodes or abscesses.

Mool Chand Gupta · Answer

Soft tissue opacity in xray means an opacity which almost equal to opacity produced by soft tissues. Can be due to pneumonia and others. Any opacity in xray is corroberated with complains ,clinical assessment and other investigation.

Sucharitra Picasso · Answer

Hello, The causes of pulmonary opacity are: Pneumonia Pulmonary embolism: infarction or intrapulmonary hemorrhage Neoplasm: alveolar cell carcinoma, lymphoma (usually diffuse) Atelectasis: opacity accompanied by signs of volume loss Pulmonary edema: CHF and non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema Pneumonia: bacterial, viral, Mycoplasma, Pneumocystis Hemorrhage: trauma (contusion), immunologic (Goodpasture?s), bleeding diathesis, pulmonary embolism Neoplasm: alveolar cell carcinoma, lymphoma Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis (DIP), alveolar proteinosis Bat-wing pattern?Central opacification with peripheral clearing?characteristic of pulmonary edema Acute: Interstitial pulmonary edema Interstitial pneumonitis: viral, Mycoplasma (Airspace filling often accompanies interstitial pneumonia and pulmonary edema) Chronic: Lymphangitic metastasis, sarcoidosis, eosinophilic granuloma, collagen vascular diseases, inhalation injuries, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (?fibrosing alveolitis?), resolving pneumonia Honeycomb lung?end-stage pulmonary fibrosis Also seen when pneumonia or pulmonary edema occurs in patients with underlying emphysema Tuberculosis, Fungal, Nocardia, Varicella Silicosis, Coal Worker?s lung, Sarcoidosis, Eosinophilic granuloma Neoplastic (adenocarcinoma, thyroid) Neoplasm: metastatic, lymphoma; benign tumors Fungal or parasitic infection, septic emboli Rheumatoid nodules, Wegener?s granulomatosis (Need to find out the cause).