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Fig1: Clinical photograph showing unilateral vesicles and erythematous areas of the hard palate
Fig2: Chest x-ray posteroanterior view shows ill-defined hazy irregular patches scattered all over the lung especially in the middle zone.
Fig 3: Non-contrast CT scan of the chest: Spiral axial thin cuts were taken through the chest without contrast injection with lung and mediastinal windows, reveals bilateral pulmonary pan-lobar scattered patchy zones of ground-glass opacification with fine inter-lobular septal thickening, likely of pneumonic nature.