Unilateral double round pneumonia in a child: A case report and literature review

• Main Author: Hanan Ibrahim AlOmran, MD
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021-11-01
• Series: Radiology Case Reports
• Subjects: Children; Infection; Opacity; Pneumonia; Round
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043321005392

Round pneumonia is a disease that occurs mainly in young children who have a clinical presentation of lower respiratory tract infection together with a chest radiograph showing round opacity. The mean age of patients with round pneumonia is five 5 years; it is uncommonly seen after the age of 8, as the collateral airways tend to be well developed by this age. In our case, we evaluated a 10-year-old girl who presented with fever, cough, and rounded densities on her chest x-ray. The rapid urinary antigen test for Streptococcus pneumoniae was positive, and serum anti-Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies were non-reactive. The diagnosis of round pneumonia was confirmed when the patient showed a complete recovery both clinically and radiographically after a course of penicillin and gentamicin.