Essentials Of Human Disease 2nd Edition by Leonard Crowley

Exercise 6

Circle the correct statement. A postoperative patient with a normal temperature has chest pain, shortness of breath, a bloody sputum, and a pulmonary infiltrate demonstrated by a chest x-ray. The most likely diagnosis is
A) Lobar pneumonia
B) Pulmonary emphysema
C) Carcinoma of the lung
D) Pulmonary infarct