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A previously fit, 71-year-old female presented with a 2-day history of chest pain, cough and mucoid sputum. On examination she was pyrexial; there were a few crepitations at the lung bases and she was hypoxic. WCC 20.2, Lymphocytes 2.5, Neutrophils 5 and eosinophils 11.4. A CXR (Image 1) was performed.
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Joarder, R., Crundwell, N. (2011). Case 77. In: Case Studies in Chest Imaging. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-838-6_77
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