Image 1 Chest X-Ray PA (Posterior-Anterior) of a male patient who presented with cough and fever. The purple arrows indicate right middle lobe pneumonia. Also noticeable are air bronchograms; an air bronchogram occurs when surrounding alveoli are filled with fluid or inflammatory fluids (in this case due to the infection) and a tubular […]
Tuberculosis (TB) or Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB)
Image 1 Frontal Chest x-ray of a young Vietnamese man presenting with weight loss and cough. Chest x-ray shows extensive bilateral perihilar, mid and upper zone air space disease. There are a combination of consolidations with differing sized cavities featuring irregular wall thickening and bronchiectasis. Bronchiectasis is abnormal widening of the bronchi or their […]
