Case: Chest radiograph #31127199
Chest Intermediate
Read this radiograph systematically before revealing the answer. What is the main abnormality?
Image: Yale Rosen from USA via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · resized and converted to WebP
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Answer: Pulmonary tuberculosis
What to look for in pulmonary tuberculosis
- Upper-zone consolidation with cavitation and volume loss.
Description by the image author (may be in another language): Numerous tiny nodules are present in both lungs.
Educational case. The diagnosis comes from the image's documented source; the "what to look for" list describes the condition in general and is not a report of this individual image.
