Radiographic Appearance and Clinical Outcome Correlates in 26 Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Shu-Chiang Hsieh1,
Wing P. Chan1,2,
Jerry Chin-Wei Chien1,
Wen-Sen Lee3,
Min-Szu Yao1,
Wai-Man Choi1,
Chia-Yuen Chen1 and
Chun Yu1,2
1 Department of Radiology, Taipei Medical UniversityMunicipal Wan Fang
Hospital, 111 Hsing-Long Rd., Section 3, Taipei 116, Taiwan, Republic of
China.
2 Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 250
Wu-Hsing St., Taipei 110, Taiwan, Republic of China.
3 Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical UniversityMunicipal Wan
Fang Hospital, Taipei 116, Taiwan, Republic of China.

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Fig. 1A. 29-year-old previously healthy woman who presented with fever
and dry cough. Initial chest radiograph shows air-space consolidation in left
lung. Upper (curved arrow), middle, and lower (straight solid
arrow) lung zones and both medial (open arrow) and lateral
compartments are involved.
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Fig. 1B. 29-year-old previously healthy woman who presented with fever
and dry cough. Chest radiograph obtained 15 days after A shows
progression of disease and bilateral consolidations predominant in right
middle, left middle, and lower left lung zones, consistent with clinical
diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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Fig. 2A. 59-year-old man who presented with fever, dyspnea, and chest
pain. Initial chest radiograph shows ground-glass attenuation in upper,
middle, and lower left lung zones.
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Fig. 2B. 59-year-old man who presented with fever, dyspnea, and chest
pain. Chest radiograph obtained 4 days after A shows that middle and
lower left lung zones have cleared but residual ground-glass attenuation
remains in upper left lung zone.
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Fig. 3. 90-year-old man who presented with fever, dry cough, and
leukopenia. Frontal chest radiograph shows areas of bilateral consolidation in
lower lung zones and bilateral pleural effusions (arrows).
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Fig. 4A. 31-year-old man who presented with fever, chills, cough, and
diarrhea. Initial chest radiograph shows that lower left lung zone is
normal.
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Fig. 4B. 31-year-old man who presented with fever, chills, cough, and
diarrhea. Chest radiograph obtained 3 days after initial symptoms shows
air-space consolidation in lower left lung zone (arrows).
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