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What is the specificity of dynamic air bronchograms for bacterial pneumonia?

What other diagnoses must be considered when encountering dynamic air bronchograms on ultrasound?
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Hospital Medicine · Washington State University Floyd College of Medicine
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Dynamic air bronchograms on lung ultrasound for bacterial pneumonia have a specificity estimate around 95% (Lichtenstein et al., PMID 19225063 and Haaksma et al., PMID 34582414). This high specificity reflects the presence of patent, transiently air-filled bronchi within consolidation characteristic...

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