Open AccessA Chest X-Ray causing confusion
Author(s) -
T Novak,
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Catherine Strait,
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Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acute medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.14
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1747-4892
pISSN - 1747-4884
DOI - 10.52964/amja.0764
Subject(s) - medicine , confusion , malignancy , pneumonia , radiology , pulmonary oedema , pleural effusion , lung , psychology , psychoanalysis
The Chest X-Ray (Figure 1) shows right unilateral pulmonary oedema with small bilateral pleural effusions. Unilateral pulmonary oedema can easily be mistaken for other pathologies such as pneumonia or pulmonary haemorrhage or even malignancy.