Imaging of community-acquired pneumonia: Roles of imaging examinations, imaging diagnosis of specific pathogens and discrimination from noninfectious diseases

Figure 2 Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia showing alveolar pneumonia in a woman in her 30s. A: Chest radiograph demonstrates ill-defined consolidation in the right lower lung field (arrow); B: Thin-section CT reveals a non-segmental consolidation with air bronchograms at the dorsal aspect of the right lower lobe. Areas of ground-glass opacity are also noted around the consolidation (arrows). CT: Computed tomography.