Radiology, Vol 124, 607-612, Copyright © 1977 by Radiological Society of North America

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Bacterial or nonbacterial pneumonia: accuracy of radiographic diagnosis

J Tew, L Calenoff and BS Berlin

The initial chest radiographs of 31 patients with laboratory-proved pneumonia were evaluated by a panel of 6 radiologists who had no prior knowledge of the clinical data. No statistical reliability was found for distinguishing bacterial from nonbacterial pneumonia. Radiographic diagnoses were 67% accurate for the 16 cases of bacterial pneumonia, and 65% accurate for the 9 viral cases. Six cases of Mycoplasma pneumonia were diagnosed as nonbacterial 19% of the time, and as "bacterial pneumonia" 81% of the time.

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