Healed Varicella Pneumonia: A Case of Diffuse Pulmonary Microcalcifications

Varicella pneumonia is a potentially fatal complication of the Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes the well-known chickenpox disease of childhood. Identifying this type of pneumonia by characteristic features is important for radiologists and radiology residents. Typical manifestations of act...

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Autores principales: Mylarapu, Amrutha, Yarabarla, Varun, Padilla, Rebekah M, Fasen, Madeline, Reddy, Pramod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34327107
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15890
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author Mylarapu, Amrutha
Yarabarla, Varun
Padilla, Rebekah M
Fasen, Madeline
Reddy, Pramod
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Yarabarla, Varun
Padilla, Rebekah M
Fasen, Madeline
Reddy, Pramod
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description Varicella pneumonia is a potentially fatal complication of the Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes the well-known chickenpox disease of childhood. Identifying this type of pneumonia by characteristic features is important for radiologists and radiology residents. Typical manifestations of active Varicella pneumonia include diffuse pulmonary nodules, which may mimic other diseases. Healed Varicella pneumonia can present as diffuse, calcified pulmonary micronodules. We describe a case of healed Varicella pneumonia in a patient with a history of remote VZV infection.
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spelling pubmed-83080262021-07-28 Healed Varicella Pneumonia: A Case of Diffuse Pulmonary Microcalcifications Mylarapu, Amrutha Yarabarla, Varun Padilla, Rebekah M Fasen, Madeline Reddy, Pramod Cureus Radiology Varicella pneumonia is a potentially fatal complication of the Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes the well-known chickenpox disease of childhood. Identifying this type of pneumonia by characteristic features is important for radiologists and radiology residents. Typical manifestations of active Varicella pneumonia include diffuse pulmonary nodules, which may mimic other diseases. Healed Varicella pneumonia can present as diffuse, calcified pulmonary micronodules. We describe a case of healed Varicella pneumonia in a patient with a history of remote VZV infection. Cureus 2021-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8308026/ /pubmed/34327107 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15890 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mylarapu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mylarapu, Amrutha
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title_full Healed Varicella Pneumonia: A Case of Diffuse Pulmonary Microcalcifications
title_fullStr Healed Varicella Pneumonia: A Case of Diffuse Pulmonary Microcalcifications
title_full_unstemmed Healed Varicella Pneumonia: A Case of Diffuse Pulmonary Microcalcifications
title_short Healed Varicella Pneumonia: A Case of Diffuse Pulmonary Microcalcifications
title_sort healed varicella pneumonia: a case of diffuse pulmonary microcalcifications
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34327107
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15890
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