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Case Reports
. 2019 Mar 5;12(3):e228315.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-228315.

PCP lung nodules

Emad Abu Sitta  1 , Xiaojin Sha  2 , Komal Masood  1 , Claudiu Georgescu  1
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Case Reports

PCP lung nodules

Emad Abu Sitta et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; pneumonia (infectious disease).

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) Initial chest CT scan showing left upper lobe (LUL) thick wall cavitary lesion. (B) Repeated chest CT scan 3 months later showing a decrease in the size of LUL cavitary lesion but emerging right lung nodules.
Figure 2
Figure 2
(A) Transbronchial biopsy shows chronic inflammation, acute activation with focal organisms (arrows). (B) Gomori Methenamine-Silver (GMS) stain of transbronchial biopsy shows Pneumocystis jirovecii organisms (arrows). Magnification ×800.
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