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A chest x-ray image: total opacification of the hemithorax
1Institution Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. altun@medscape.com
Cardiology in Review
|October 29, 2003
Abstract:
The authors describe a patient with a unilateral total lung opacification that was later resolved by bronchial lavage. Either a mechanical obstruction to the bronchus caused by endotracheal tube or mucous plug may be responsible for this chest x-ray image.