Walking Pneumonia #1
by Scott Camazine
Title
Walking Pneumonia #1
Artist
Scott Camazine
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Anterior-posterior (AP) chest x-ray showing a pattern consistent with atypical, or so-called "walking" pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumonia) in the left lung. Atypical pneumonias characteristically present on chest X-ray as a patchy infiltrate. In contrast, typical pneumonias show up as consolidated, well defined densities. The x-ray shown here is of a 40 year old woman who was a smoker.
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October 28th, 2014
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