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Unilateral double round pneumonia in a child: A case report and literature review
- Source :
- Radiology Case Reports, Radiology Case Reports, Vol 16, Iss 11, Pp 3266-3269 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2021.
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Abstract
- Round pneumonia is a disease that occurs mainly in young children who have a clinical presentation of lower respiratory tract infection together with a chest radiograph showing round opacity. The mean age of patients with round pneumonia is five 5 years; it is uncommonly seen after the age of 8, as the collateral airways tend to be well developed by this age. In our case, we evaluated a 10-year-old girl who presented with fever, cough, and rounded densities on her chest x-ray. The rapid urinary antigen test for Streptococcus pneumoniae was positive, and serum anti-Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies were non-reactive. The diagnosis of round pneumonia was confirmed when the patient showed a complete recovery both clinically and radiographically after a course of penicillin and gentamicin.
- Subjects :
- Opacity
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Urinary system
R895-920
Case Report
medicine.disease_cause
Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
Lower respiratory tract infection
Streptococcus pneumoniae
medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Girl
Children
media_common
Round
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Pneumonia
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
Penicillin
Gentamicin
business
Chest radiograph
Infection
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19300433
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiology Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d97413446cdf25fbbfbf695b27c59e80