bronchopneumonia
Sign in to saveAlso known as lobular pneumonia, bronchial pneumonia, Chest infection - bronchopneumonia, Chest infection - unspecified bronchopneumonia
Bronchopneumonia is a subtype of pneumonia. It is the acute inflammation of the bronchi, accompanied by inflamed patches in the nearby lobules of the lungs.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Bronchopneumonia
- Medical condition (new).synonym
- Bronchial pneumonia, bronchogenic pneumonia
- Medical condition (new).image
- Lobar Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia illustrated.jpg
- Medical condition (new).image_size
- 150
- Medical condition (new).caption
- Typical distribution of lobar pneumonia (left in image) and bronchopneumonia (right in image)
- Medical condition (new).specialty
- Pulmonology, infectious disease
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Research
7,075 papers- Bronchopneumonia.Nursing times · 1962
- [Bronchopneumonia].Lakartidningen · 1980
- [Bronchopneumonia].Les cahiers du nursing · 1966
- [Bronchopneumonia in children].Medicina · 1953
- Pseudomonas bronchopneumonia.Lancet (London, England) · 1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C26710
- health specialty
- pulmonology
- ICPC 2 ID
- R81
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000144
- ICD-9-CM
- 485
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- WikiProject Medicine
- symptoms and signs
- pneumonia
- Commons category
- Bronchopneumonia
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Causes
- Pathology
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- References
Bronchopneumonia is a subtype of pneumonia. It is the acute inflammation of the bronchi, accompanied by inflamed patches in the nearby lobules of the lungs.
It is often contrasted with lobar pneumonia; but, in clinical practice, the types are difficult to apply, as the patterns usually overlap. Bronchopneumonia (lobular) often leads to lobar pneumonia as the infection progresses. The same organism may cause one type of pneumonia in one patient, and another in a different patient.
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