Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: plain chest x-ray This chest x-ray shows diffuse reticulonodular shadowing with relative sparing of the apices and costophrenic angles. A bronchoalveolar lavage sample demonstrated Pneumocystis carinii. This chest x-ray is also consistent with miliary tuberculosis. Patients with miliary tuberculosis tend to be less hypoxic.

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