Case 46-1967

Abstract

Presentation of CaseA forty-five-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of episodic severe dyspnea.He had been well until six months previously, when a cough and low-grade fever developed. Demethylchlortetracycline (Declomycin) was administered. An x-ray film of the chest showed a hazy density in the right-lower-lung field extending from the eighth rib posteriorly to the diaphragm, appearing most dense in its peripheral portion. On admission to another hospital 25 ml of thin, amber fluid was aspirated from the right pleural space; routine cultures and cultures for tubercle bacilli were negative. On the fifteenth hospital day a portion of . . .