Causes of cystic lung disease
Associated with genetic mutations | Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (tuberous sclerosis-associated and sporadic) |
Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome and other folliculin deficiencies | |
Proteus syndrome, neurofibromatosis, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome | |
Neoplastic | Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, other histiocytoses (e.g. Erdheim–Chester disease) |
Metastatic sarcoma, cavitating adenocarcinomas | |
Benign metastasising leiomyoma | |
Associated with lymphoproliferative disorders | Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia |
Follicular bronchiolitis | |
Amyloidosis | |
Light chain deposition disease | |
IgG4-related disease | |
Associated with infections | Pneumocystis jirovecii |
Staphylococcal pneumonia | |
Respiratory papillomatosis | |
Parasitic and fungal diseases (e.g. coccidiocomycosis, paragonimiasis) | |
Occupational and environmental | Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (e.g. farmer's lung, bird fanciers' lung) |
Hard metal lung disease (tungsten carbide sensitisation) | |
Chronic beryllium disease (beryllium sensitisation) | |
Respiratory bronchiolitis associated interstitial lung disease (smoking/? vaping) | |
Hut lung (biomass fuels) | |
Associated with interstitial lung disease | Hypersensitivity pneumonitis |
Honeycombing in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | |
Honeycombing in asbestosis and other pneumoconioses | |
Conditions that may mimic cystic lung disease | Emphysema |
α1-antitrypsin deficiency | |
Bronchiectasis | |
Sarcoidosis | |
Cavities in rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, coal workers' pneumoconiosis (Caplan's syndrome) |