Ashley Davidoff MD – TheCommonVein.com (135180)
Artistic rendering of a CT scan of a 74-year-old female showing a wedge-shaped opacity in the right upper lobe. The lesion exhibits a combination of consolidation, ground-glass, and reticular components along a bronchovascular distribution. In the appropriate clinical setting, bronchopneumonia is included in the differential diagnosis.
Courtesy: Ashley Davidoff MD, TheCommonVein.com (135180.01MAD.lungs)
Lyrics
“The Mixed Opacity”
(Verse 1) I am the puzzle, the mottled display, The lung that is cloudy and solid, today. I am not just one thing, I am not purely white, I am the gray and the dense, in the same patch of light.
(Chorus) Oh, I am the Mixed Opacity! A truly complex mystery. The solid, the hazy, the net, and the rest, I am the truly challenging test.
(Verse 2) I am the Ground Glass, the hazy, soft veil, But I’m also the Solid that tells a new tale. I am the “part-solid” nodule, a worrisome sign, Where haze and a solid component combine.
(Chorus) Oh, I am the Mixed Opacity! A truly complex mystery. The solid, the hazy, the net, and the rest, I am the truly challenging test.
(Verse 3) I am the Reticular net, the interstitial line, But I’m also the GGO, in a “Crazy Pave” design. The stone and the grout, the thick and the thin, A map of the trouble, all mixed up within.
(Chorus) Oh, I am the Mixed Opacity! A truly complex mystery. The solid, the hazy, the net, and the rest, I am the truly challenging test.
(Outro) I am the haze of the battle (the GGO), And the scar of the battle (the fibrotic pull). So do not define me by one simple name, I am the Mixed Opacity, I am the whole game!
Poem
“The Mixed Opacity”
I am the puzzle, the mottled display,
The lung that is cloudy and solid, today.
I am not just one thing, I am not purely white,
I am the gray and the dense, in the same patch of light.
I am the Ground Glass, the hazy, soft veil,
But I’m also the Solid that tells a new tale. I am the “part-solid” nodule, a worrisome sign, Where haze and a solid component combine.
I am the Reticular net, the interstitial line, But I’m also the GGO, in a “Crazy Pave” design. The stone and the grout, the thick and the thin, A map of the trouble, all mixed up within.
I am the haze of the battle (the GGO), And the scar of the battle (the fibrotic pull), I am the sign of a process that’s complex and deep, With multiple secrets to find and to keep.
So do not define me by one simple name, I am the Mixed Opacity, I am the whole game. The solid, the hazy, the net, and the rest, I am the truly challenging test.