Effect of C‐reactive protein on chest X‐ray interpretation: it’s more
complicated.
- Miles Weinberger
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Abstract
A chest x-ray cannot diagnose pneumonia, it only shows shadows.
Pneumonia then becomes a clinical diagnosis for which antibiotics should
be considered primarily after careful clinical assessment of how sick
the child appears, the presence of fever, an elevated CRP, an elevated
procalcitonin, and a radiologic image of a distinct lobar or lobular
infiltrate.