Presentation
URTI symptoms, cough, fever.
Patient Data
Age: 18
Gender: Female
From the case:
Left lower lobe pneumonia
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Left lower lobe opacity obscuring the left hemidiaphragm with air bronchograms consistent with pneumonia in this clinical setting.
Case Discussion
- obscuration of the left hemidiaphragm (silhouette sign) is indicative of left lower lobe pneumonia in the correct clinical setting
- other features of pulmonary consolidation seen in this case are air bronchograms and loss of more black sign