Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
This upright chest radiograph shows diffuse bilateral opacities characteristic of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
By permission of the publisher. From Herdegen J, Bone R. In Atlas of Infectious Diseases: Pleuropulmonary and Bronchial Infections. Edited by G Mandell (series editor) and MS Simberkoff. Philadelphia, Current Medicine, 1996.