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Chest X-ray and computerized tomography showing a right, organized pleural effusion.
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The chest X-ray showed a unilateral, organized pleural effusion (Fig. 1). A chest CT scan showed a right, organized pleural effusion and a thickening of the right parietal and mediastinal pleura, suggestive of malignant pleural disease, without mediastinal lymph node involvement but with a compressive atelectasis of the adjacent lung parenchyma (Fig. 1).
Chest X-ray and computerized tomography showing the resolution of pleuritis and pleural effusion after antibiotic therapy sensible to Bacillus megaterium.
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A chest CT scan after two weeks of the antibiotic therapy showed a significant improvement (Fig. 2) with normality of blood exams.