title: A pattern-oriented approach to chest radiographs in atypical pneumonia syndromes.
abstract: The differential diagnosis of the atypical pneumonia syndrome is facilitated by recognition of the chest radiographic pattern. Both infectious and noninfectious entities should be considered: clinical criteria may be used to exclude unlikely diseases and to construct an ordered list of possible causes.
authors.affiliation: Division of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Armstrong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013577:Syndrome