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Chest X-ray imaging showing pleural effusion before (left) and after (right) thoracentesis.
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Unfortunately, the patient left the emergency department before further evaluation; however, he did follow up with his primary care physician who ordered a chest x-ray which again showed large right sided pleural effusion with overlying atelectasis (Fig. 1). He had no complications post procedure and follow up imaging showed significant reduction of the pleural effusion (Fig. 1).
Image showing a sample of the yellow, turbid, pleural fluid collected after thoracentesis. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
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Patient underwent a thoracentesis, with approximately 1.5L of an opaque yellow fluid obtained from the pleural space (Fig. 2).