The lung texture is noticeably thickened and the edges are blurry.
This indicates widespread alveolar inflammation that obscures some thickened lung texture.
The X-ray shows two lung lobes have atelectasis.
Combining the patient's multiple symptoms, Li Jingsheng's final diagnosis is lobar pneumonia.
Initially, during the physical examination, it was suspected to be lobar pneumonia, but with the X-ray as an auxiliary diagnosis, the results are clearer now.
It's undoubtedly lobar pneumonia.
Because lobar pneumonia usually results when bacteria invade the alveoli directly after entering via the airways, centering around a single alveolus, and then spreading extensively to adjacent alveoli through Kohn's pores, eventually forming a lobe-segment inflammation.
Lobar pneumonia, on the other hand, arises when bacteria invade the bronchi and trachea through the upper respiratory tract, causing inflammation that then spreads to the alveoli.
In simpler terms, it's bronchial pneumonia.
