Question: SPOT DIAGNOSIS – What is depicted by the chest X-ray below?
Hint #1: Infectious etiology.
Hint #2: This form of the infection depicted by the chest X-ray includes wide dissemination of the infection into the body with small lesions on the order of 1 – 5 mm in size.

Answer: Miliary tuberculosis – which describes progressive, widely disseminated hematogenous TB infection.