A Rare Differential Diagnosis of Crazy Paving Pattern

• DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_140_16
• Publication Date: 2018-08-14T05:58:57Z
• Authors: Govind Singh Rajawat; Aashish Kumar Singh; Thomas Kurian; Suresh Koolwal
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

The "crazy-paving pattern" is scattered or diffuse ground glass attenuation with superimposed interlobular septal thickening and intralobular lines. Crazy-paving pattern initially was pathognomonic sign of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. In the recent era, there are number acute chronic conditions described for crazy paving pattern. crazy-paving on computed tomography (CT) a nonspecific finding. formed by superimposition ground-glass opacity CT, resembling structure irregularly shaped stones.[1] Most diseases usually diagnosed based clinicoradiological findings in few cases biopsy histopathological examination needed to establish etiological diagnosis.