Diagnosis
- Physical examination
- confirm source
- which hemithorax
- localized rales, rhonchi, or wheezing
- Chest Radiography
- confluent or patchy alveolar filling pattern
- becomes reticular over days
- clears in 3-10 days
- Bronchoscopy
- visualize potential causes/location
- rigid vs fiberoptic
- FOB identifies carcinoma in 2-13% pts with normal CXR
- timing
- Arteriography
- identify site
- therapeutic with embolization
- 80-90% initial control
- long term recurrence in 10-15%
- Radionuclide Scanning
- Chest Computed Tomography