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Apostolos G Pappas1, Konstantina Dede1, Athina Kallimani2
11st Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Evangelismos" Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Case Presentation:
A 27-year-old man from Eritrea presented to the ED complaining about a progressively worse blunt chest pain in the anterior right hemithorax. Chest pain started 4 years ago and was intermittent. During the last 6 months, symptoms got worse, and the patient experienced shortness of breath in mild exercise. For this purpose, he visited another institution, where a chest radiograph was performed (Fig 1). He was advised to visit a pulmonologist for further evaluation, with the diagnosis of a loculated pleural effusion in the right upper hemithorax.
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