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What Is More Likely To Cause An Upper Lobe Infiltrate?

What is more likely to cause an upper lobe infiltrate? How and why?
Sun, 14 Aug 2011
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The answer is very simple, the most common cause of upper lobe infliltrate in tropical countries like india is Tuberculosis and next comes atypical pneumonias. One has to keep in mind breast mets too

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What Is More Likely To Cause An Upper Lobe Infiltrate?

Thanks for the query The answer is very simple, the most common cause of upper lobe infliltrate in tropical countries like india is Tuberculosis and next comes atypical pneumonias. One has to keep in mind breast mets too Have a healthy living