Hiding behind the veil: an ominous chest X-ray
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An abnormal chest x-ray.
A 51-YEAR-OLD white man with a 45-year history of smoking was noted to have an abnormality on a routine chest x-ray. He denied any history of cough, sputum production, chest pain, dyspnea, weight loss, weakness, or tuberculosis. There was no previous chest x-ray available for comparison. The patient’s physical examination results were unremarkable. His chest x-ray is shown in Figure 1 and a com...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Internal and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1828-0447,1970-9366
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-018-1797-y