Bullous Lung Disease
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A 34-year-old black man presented to the emergency department with right-sided pleuritic chest pain, productive cough, low grade fever, and dyspnea. He had a history of emphysema, deep vein thrombosis, protein C and S deficiency, and inferior vena cava filter. His physical exam was significant for fever, tachypnea, tachycardia, and decreased breath sounds over the right upper and middle lung fields. We obtained a chest radiograph (Figure 1).
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