Managing interstitial lung disease detected on CT during lung cancer screening

Brian D Southern; Rachel G Scheraga; Ruchi Yadav

doi:10.3949/ccjm.83a.14157

Managing interstitial lung disease detected on CT during lung cancer screening

Cleve Clin J Med. 2016 Jan;83(1):55-65. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.83a.14157.

Authors

Brian D Southern^{1

2}, Rachel G Scheraga^{3

2}, Ruchi Yadav⁴

Affiliations

¹ Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. E-mail: southeb@ccf.org.
² Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
³ Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁴ Associate Staff, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

PMID: 26760523
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.83a.14157

Abstract

As long-term smokers undergo computed tomography (CT) to screen for lung cancer, cases of interstitial lung disease are being discovered incidentally. This article explains how to distinguish among the most common forms of interstitial lung disease in this situation and the role of primary care physicians in managing them.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Early Detection of Cancer*
Humans
Incidental Findings
Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnostic imaging*
Lung Diseases, Interstitial / therapy*
Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Primary Health Care / methods*
Pulmonary Fibrosis / diagnostic imaging
Referral and Consultation
Smoking
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*