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A decrease in lung attenuation is seen when there is an abnormal increase in the amount of air; when there is an abnormal decrease in the intravascular blood volume with, as a result, a smaller calibre of the small vessels; and when there is loss of (interstitial) lung tissue. Each of these phenomena may result in a different decreased lung attenuation pattern. In this chapter, appearance and distribution of these different low-attenuation patterns are discussed.
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Verschakelen, J.A., De Wever, W. (2018). Decreased Lung Attenuation. In: Computed Tomography of the Lung. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39518-5_5
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