Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial - NTM CT scans
A 56-year-old man, a non-smoker, was referred for a CT scan of the lungs due to a persistent chronic cough accompanied by frothy whitish sputum. On this CT scan - axial tomogram, lung window, we can see micronodular and nodular soft tissue lesions in the lung parenchyma bilaterally, as well as pleural effusion, which is dominant on the right. The field of "dirty" lung parenchyma - with accentuated opacification immediately above the discrete pleural effusion on the left corresponds to the consolidation of the lung parenchyma of differential - diagnostic inflammatory etiology. Mycobacterium avium complex was successfully isolated from the sputum using Microbiological lab methods.
Credit
Snezana Stojanovic
Dimensions
4000 x 3297 pixels
Print Size @ 300 dpi
13 x 11 inches / 34 x 28 cm