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

Figure 8 Chronic transbronchial infection (diffuse aspiration bronchiolitis) in a man in his 70s. This patient had a history of esophageal carcinoma and associated repeated aspiration. Thin-section computed tomography at the level of lung base shows centrilobular nodules (arrows) with bronchiectasis (arrow heads). Low attenuation areas suggestive of pulmonary emphysema are also present (*).