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Figure 1. Clinical course. (A) At the time of diagnosis ofMycobacterium avium pulmonary disease 12 months prior to
admission, the patient had an infiltrative shadow in the right upper
lobe with cavities and bronchiectasis. No obvious pulmonary lesions
other than in the upper lobe were observed. (B) Three months prior to
admission, the infiltrative shadow had apparently resolved after 9
months of combination therapy of clarithromycin and ethambutol, but the
cavities and bronchiectasis remained. (C) Three weeks prior to
admission, there was a growing hepatocellular carcinoma lesion in the
right lobe of the liver with scattered areas of high density due to
lipiodol infusion in the context of liver cirrhosis. (D) Ten days before
admission, chest X-ray showed pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous
emphysema. No pneumothorax or pulmonary lesions were found. (E) On
admission, the lung lesion of Mycobacterium avium in the right
upper lobe remained unchanged, and extensive consolidation was observed
from just below the pleura to the middle layer in the left lower lobe,
and ground-glass opacities were recognized at the margins. (F) On the
third day after admission, the infiltrative shadow had expanded in the
left lower lobe and was accompanied by new cavitary nodules (arrows).