Pulmonary renal syndromes--a review.

Several systemic diseases share clinical, pathologic and radiologic characteristics. This article emphasizes similarities and differences in the clinical and chest radiographic manifestations of six diseases with both pulmonary and renal abnormalities-Goodpasture's syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis, lymphomatoid granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.