Posterior (A) and lateral (B) chest radiographs show large loculated right pleural effusion (arrows). Cross-sectional (C) contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography (CT) image and sagittal reformation (D) demonstrate the extent of the loculated effusion, pleural thickening, and enhancement (arrows). The patient was a 44-year-old man and an intravenous drug user. He had no radiologic evidence of the septic embolism.
Reproduced with permission from: Müller NL, Franquet T, Lee KS, Silva CIS. Bacterial pneumonia. In: Imaging of pulmonary infections, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2007. Copyright © 2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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