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Initial chest X-ray demonstrating a right hydropneumothorax.
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Chest X-ray and CT of the thorax showed a large right pleural effusion without pleural abnormalities (Fig. 1).
CT of the thorax during third hospital visit demonstrating right unilateral pleural effusion without pleural abnormalities.
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He returned to the hospital two more times over the next two weeks for dyspnea and found to have a right-sided pleural effusion on CT scan of thorax (Fig. 2) followed by recurrence of right hydropneumothorax on chest X-ray (Fig. 3).