Reticular or linear opacities |
Peripheral lung zone predominance |
Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia |
Eosinophilic pneumonia |
Upper zone predominance |
Granulomatous disease |
Sarcoidosis |
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis |
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis |
Chronic infectious diseases (eg, tuberculosis, histoplasmosis) |
Pneumoconiosis |
Silicosis |
Berylliosis |
Coal miners' pneumoconiosis |
Hard metal disease |
Miscellaneous |
Rheumatoid arthritis (necrobiotic nodular form) |
Ankylosing spondylitis |
Radiation fibrosis |
Drug-induced (amiodarone, gold) |
Lower zone predominance |
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis |
Rheumatoid arthritis (associated with usual interstitial pneumonia) |
Asbestosis |