SPHERICAL PNEUMONIA IN AN ADULT PATIENT

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  • Patchrin PEKANAN Department of Radiology, Ramathibodi Hospital
  • Janjira JATCHAVALA Department of Radiology, Ramathibodi Hospital,

Abstract

Not all discrete mass lesions in the lung parenchyma are neoplastic. Sometines pneumonia consolidations are so round and discrete that they are mistaken for pulmonary neoplasm (1). This is the report case of a spherical pneumonia in an adult patient.

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2023-03-30

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PEKANAN P, JATCHAVALA J. SPHERICAL PNEUMONIA IN AN ADULT PATIENT. ASEAN J Radiol [Internet]. 2023 Mar. 30 [cited 2024 Dec. 4];1(3):79-81. Available from: https://asean-journal-radiology.org/index.php/ajr/article/view/269

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (1995): September-December

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