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The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology |
Biblioraphy Information
| ArticleTitle |
Understanding of Community-acquired Pneumonia on the basis of chest computed tomography imaging |
| Language |
J |
| AuthorList |
Hirotsugu Ohkubo, Yuki Togashi, Yuta Kono, Yasuhiro Setoguchi |
| Affiliation |
First Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan |
| Publication |
J.J.C.M.: 19 (2), 76-83, 2009 |
| Received |
April 30, 2009 |
| Accepted |
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| Abstract |
Computed tomographic (CT) scans are now working in many general hospitals in Japan. Most of the Japanese clinicians can use CT scans as one of the useful tool of the examination of community-acquired pneumonia. Chest CT imaging plays an important role in the accurate interpretation of pulmonary anatomy and pathology. Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and Chlamydophila pneumoniae pneumonia demonstrate centrilobular or acinar shadows, and thickening of bronchivascular bundles on CT imaging. Characteristic findings of Legionella pneumophila pneumonia on CT are sharply demarcated peribronchovascular foci of consolidation intermingled with ground glass opacity. It is possible to estimate the pathogenic bacteria, if there are characteristic features on CT imaging on the basis of clinical information. |
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