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How do you know the difference in pneumonia and tb on a chest x-ray?
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Looks different: Pneumonia is a patchy or consolidated infiltrate, and TB are smaller cavitay lesions or spots in the lung.
Answered 6/10/2014
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Chest x-ray pattern: Tb is a kind of pneumonia ( or lung infection) caused by a specific bacteria ( mycobacterium tuberculosis). It is suggested by an x ray where the infection affects the upper lobes of the lungs, and where there is a cavity or "hole" in the lung produced by the infection. Non of this is 100% predictive of the bacteria however and TB is confirmed by finding the germ in the sputum.
Answered 3/15/2019
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