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10/11/2012

Pleuritic pain and radio-occult lesion

Clinical Scenario

A 33 y/o woman, comes to the ED because of a sudden emithorax pain localized on the left in basal region. The pain is described as stabbing, well localised, it worsen with inspirium …a pleuritic pain, no cough, no fever, not hemoptysis. She smokes, she does not take any medication. Chest x ray is normal. 


Is it a wall chest pain or there migth be something else? 


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