CXR Case 080

There is airspace shadowing in the right base with loss of the lateral hemidiaphragm.
Otherwise lung fields and pleura are clear.

Lateral X-Ray confirms right lower lobe, lateral basal segment, consolidation.

This is pneumonia.
Given his age and GI symptoms (so called) ‘atypical‘ pathogens such as mycoplasma should be considered.

Mycoplasma pneumonia can occur in epidemics within the community.

Rarely, mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is associated with haemolytic anaemia, renal dysfunction, erythema mulitforme, Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis