Bronchopneumonia, also sometimes known as lobular pneumonia, is a radiological pattern associated with suppurative peribronchiolar inflammation and subsequent patchy consolidation of one or more secondary lobules of a lung in response to bacterial pneumonia. EpidemiologyPneumonia is the most common cause of death due to infectious diseases in the United States, with an incidence 11.6/1000 persons/year reported in one study 4. Incidence is