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Organizing pneumonia associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is known to produce infiltrative and/or nodular opacities that are often localized. A patient presented to us with diffuse centrilobular, peribronchovascular, and perilobular opacities after documented Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. A surgical biopsy proved the lung disease to be organizing pneumonia, which dramatically resolved in response to treatment with corticosteroid. This case represents an unusual radiological manifestation associated with M. pneumoniae infection, thereby stressing the importance of this disease in the differential diagnosis for patients with diffuse opacities of the lungs.

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  1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Asakura Medical Association Hospital, 422-1 Raiharu, Asakura, 838-0069, Japan

    Hiroki Natori, Takeharu Koga, Tomoko Kamimura & Munetsugu Nishimura

  2. Department of Radiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

    Kiminori Fujimoto

  3. Department of Pathology, Asakura Medical Association Hospital, Asakura, Japan

    Jun Taguchi

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Natori, H., Koga, T., Fujimoto, K. et al. Organizing pneumonia associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Jpn J Radiol 28, 688–691 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11604-010-0473-6

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