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How much Reliable is an X-ray for Detecting Lung Fibrosis or Scarring? Highly Reliable? or need HRCT?
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Xray is not reliable Hrct is confirmatory
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Ct is accurate than xray
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Hrct is best. However if fibrosis is more, X-ray is enough.
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HRCT would be diagnostic. We might miss many crucial changes in CXR.
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