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Figure 1. A 43-year-old man with bullous emphysema was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. On admission a chest film (Panel A) showed a bulla (white arrow in Panels A through G), which had also been present 15 months earlier, adjacent to right-lower-lobe pneumonia (thick black arrow in Panel A and Panel B). After three days of antibiotics, an air-fluid level (thin black arrow in Panel B, Panel C, Panel D, and Panel E) developed within the bulla (Panel B). The clinical symptoms and the right-lower-lobe infiltrate resolved (Panel C) during the ensuing six-week course of amoxicillin at a . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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