Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: CT features in 16 patients
- Authors
- Lee, I[Lee, I]; Kim, TS[Kim, TS]; Yoon, HK[Yoon, HK]
- Issue Date
- Mar-2006
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- lungs; infection; computed tomography; pneumonia
- Citation
- EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY, v.16, no.3, pp.719 - 725
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
- Volume
- 16
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 719
- End Page
- 725
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/87588
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00330-005-0026-z
- ISSN
- 0938-7994
- Abstract
- The objective of this study was to assess the computed tomography (CT) features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia. We retrospectively reviewed CT findings of 16 patients (M:F=9:7, age range 1-74 years, median 9 years) with serologically proven Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and with chest CT scan available. Two distinctive patterns of CT features of M. pneumoniae pneumonia were noted between the paediatric (age < 18 years) and the adult (age >= 18 years) groups. The pediatric group (n=11) showed lobar or segmental consolidation (100%) with frequent pleural effusion (82%) and regional lymphadenopathy (82%) and mild volume decrease of the involved lobe (73%), while four of the five adult patients showed diffuse and/or multifocal, centrilobular or peribronchovascular areas of ground-glass attenuation (80%) with a lobular distribution, and frequent thickening of interlobular septa (60%) and the bronchial walls (40%) were also detected at high-resolution CT. The CT finding of a lobar or segmental consolidation with a parapneumonic effusion seen in our children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia was similar to that of bacterial lobar pneumonia. In contrast, the CT findings noted in our adult patients consisted of a mixture of a bacterial bronchopneumonia pattern and a viral interstitial pneumonia pattern.
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