A variety of X-ray findings have been reported in patients with PCP: upper lobe infiltrates, nodular infiltrates, pneumothoraces, and...Ronald J. GrossmanConstance B. WofsyStanley R. Yancovitz
Conclusions: For diagnosis of PCP, use of PCR technologies, when combined with less-invasive patient specimens such as expectorated or induced sputum, represent more cost-effective options than any diagnostic procedure using BAL, or chest x-ray alone.Harris...
The WHO guidelines, and more reviews are available at http://www.ichrc.org.The WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children recommends that PCP should be presumptively diagnosed in any child who has severe or very severe pneumonia and bilateral interstitial infiltrates on chest X-ray. Consider ...