Right thoracic stomach mimicking pleural empyema in an elderly man
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Right thoracic stomach mimicking pleural empyema in an elderly man.
An 82-year-old man visited our outpatient department due to fever and cough for 5 days. He denied significant epigastralgic pain or heart burn in the past. The physical examination was unremarkable and the laboratory data were within normal limits. Chest radiograph (CXR) showed opacity with an air–fluid level in the right lower hemithorax behind the right heart and obscuring the right hemidiaph...
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Address for correspondence: Szymon Smoliński MD, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Wielkopolskie Centrum Pulmonologii i Torakochirurgii, 62 Szamarzewskiego St, 60-569 Poznan, Poland, phone: +48 606 667 422, fax: +48 606 667 422, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 21.07.2016, accepted: 16.08.2016. Pleural empyema occurs most often as a complication of pneumonitis, a complication of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcr224