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case_images: The patient was a 67-year-old man. A 23-mm tumor is apparent in the superior segment of the right lower lobe (S6) on CT performed during RFA. Usual interstitial pneumonia with reticular and ground-glass opacities is evident in both inferior lobes
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case_images: After review and approval by the institutional review board of Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine and obtaining informed consent from the patient and his family, CT-guided lung RFA was performed in October 2010 (Fig. 1).
case_images: Severe pneumothorax and empyema are seen in the right lung. Debridement of empyema and pleural drain placement were performed by video-assisted thoracoscopy
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case_images: Therefore, video-assisted thoracoscopic debridement of empyema and drainage were performed 13 weeks after RFA (Fig. 2).