Spontaneous lung pneumatocele in an adult with community-acquired pneumonia

• Hoofdauteurs: Jyoti Bajpai (Auteur), Surya Kant (Auteur), Ajay Kumar Verma (Auteur), Darshan Kumar Bajaj (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: SpringerOpen, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Pulmonary pneumatoceles are thin-walled, air-filled cystic lesions occurring in lung parenchyma. They occur as a sequelae to bacterial infections of the lung, especially bronchopneumonia. They are commonly seen in infants and children. In this article, we report a rare case of pneumatoceles in a 40-...