Pulmonary TB: plain chest x-ray

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Pulmonary TB: plain chest x-ray. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This x-ray shows patchy right middle and lower zone shadowing with multiple cavities due to tuberculosis. This case was an aspiration pneumonia. Other causes of pneumonias with cavitation include Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae and aspiration pneumonia with anaerobic involvement.

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