Atypical pneumonia
Atypical pneumonias are characterised by a lack of exudate into alveoli. Instead, the interstitium of the lung is inflamed with a polymorphonuclear cell influx. Typically, consolidation is lacking and chest radiograms are patchily and densely shadowed out of proportion to the severity of clinical features.
Atypical pneumonias include those of:
- aspergillosis
- actinomycosis
- chlamydial pneumonia
- coxiella burnetti pneumonia
- cytomegalovirus
- Legionnaire's disease
- measles
- mycoplasma pneumonia
- pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- tuberculosis
- varicella
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