1. Item Lobar pneumonia Lobular pneumonia
Age Young and adults Extremes of ages
Organism Mostly pneumococci Mixed organisms
Grossly Affects one or more than one Patchy, bilateral basal
lobe (Diffuse ) affection of both lungs
Type of inflam- Fibrinous inflammation Suppurative inflammation
mations
Mode of healing Resolution occurs in the Lysis & complications are
most cases most common
Differences between lobar and lobular pneumonia