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The patient was a 67-year-old man. A 23-mm tumor is apparent in the superior segment of the right lower lobe (S6) on CT performed during RFA. Usual interstitial pneumonia with reticular and ground-glass opacities is evident in both inferior lobes
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After review and approval by the institutional review board of Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine and obtaining informed consent from the patient and his family, CT-guided lung RFA was performed in October 2010 (Fig. 1).
Severe pneumothorax and empyema are seen in the right lung. Debridement of empyema and pleural drain placement were performed by video-assisted thoracoscopy
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Therefore, video-assisted thoracoscopic debridement of empyema and drainage were performed 13 weeks after RFA (Fig. 2).