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In cases of lobular and segmental pneumonia, large amounts of air are displaced from the lung as a result of extensive fibrinous exudation. Affected lobes or segments are depleted of air and sink in water. The phase of engorgement offers good conditions for pathological echo transmission. In this phase, pneumonia is imaged well on the sonogram. In the phase of lysis, the inflamed portion of the lung is ventilated to an increasing extent.

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Acknowledgement: Neoplastic Consolidations in the Lung: Primary Lung Tumors and Metastases 

We thank R. Loose, Head of the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Klinikum Nürnberg Nord, for providing radiology reports.

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    Sonja Beckh

  3. Oncology Department, Zentrum für innere Medizin, Baldingerstraße, 35043, Marburg, Germany

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