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'Atypical pneumonia'. Why this term may be better left unsaid
1Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA. george.sarosi@med.va.gov
Postgraduate Medicine
|May 1, 1999
Abstract:
I have attempted to mount an argument to rid the medical literature of the term "atypical pneumonia." It really adds nothing to diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in patients with respiratory infections caused by various organisms.