Table 2.
Chest CT findings of the patients with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia on admission*
| Findings |
M. pneumoniae (n = 64) |
S. pneumoniae (n = 68) |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidation | 39 (61) | 52 (76) | 0.0618 |
| Ground-glass attenuation | 50 (78) | 32 (47) | 0.0003 |
| Centrilobular nodules | 50 (78) | 15 (22) | <0.0001 |
| Bronchial wall thickening | 52 (81) | 13 (19) | <0.0001 |
| Reticular or linear opacity | 17 (27) | 22 (32) | 0.5675 |
| Pleural effusion | 13 (20) | 17 (25) | 0.5409 |
| Lymphadenopathy | 15 (23) | 13 (19) | 0.6707 |
* Data represent the numbers of patients and numbers in parentheses are percentages.