Table 4. Major chest imaging characteristics in specific inherited metabolic diseases
Conventional radiograph
    Diffuse peripheral reticular densities (honeycomb pattern)
        Niemann–Pick disease type B
    Nodular and/or reticulonodular densities, even with miliary-like appearance
        Niemann–Pick diseases
        Gaucher disease type I and III
        Lysinuric protein intolerance
        Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome
    Perihilar fibrosis
        Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome
    Pleural thickening
        Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome
High-resolution computed tomography
    Inter- and/or intralobular septal thickening
        Gaucher disease type I and III
        Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome
    Nodular densities
        Gaucher disease type I and III
    Ground-glass opacities
        Niemann–Pick disease type B
        Gaucher disease type I
        Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome
        Lysinuric protein intolerance
    Ground-glass opacities with interlobular septal thickening and intralobular lines (suggesting pulmonary alveolar proteinosis)
        Lysinuric protein intolerance
        Niemann–Pick disease type C