A pattern-oriented approach to chest radiographs in atypical pneumonia syndromes.
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.
Lynch
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Division of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
Armstrong
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JD
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