cotton ball patch

cotton ball patch

Imaging-bone A desciptor for the irregular, rounded, 'fluffy' patches of sclerotic bone seen on a plain skull film in the thickened diploë of advanced Paget's disease of bone; CBPs are associated with exuberant chaotic bone formation in a background of osteosclerosis, also be seen in metastases, hereditary hypophosphatasia and chondroblastomas Lung A descriptor for the multiple rounded fluffy nodules seen on a CXR in pulmonary histoplasmosis.

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