Lung complications occur in all rheumatological disorders, but their frequency and type vary strikingly between different systemic diseases. Greater routine use of high-resolution CT and echocardiography means that interstitial lung disease and pulmonary vascular disease are increasingly recognized, which can create clinical difficulty in distinguishing between subclinical involvement and significant disease....
Inspiratory and expiratory high-resolution CT findings in a patient with Sjögren's syndrome and cystic lung disease.