case_images: PMC6556350_01
case_images: (a) Contrast enhanced axial image through upper thorax demonstrates a complex left pleural fluid collection with heterogeneous attenuation and internal septations. No vascularity was demonstrated to suggest and underlying mass. (b) Coronal image demonstrate partial collapse of the lower and upper lobes due to mass effect from the pleural collection. (c) Sonographic image through the left hemidiaphragm shows a mildly complex pleural fluid collection.
case_images: CRIRA2019-1301845.001.jpg
case_images: PMC6556350_01_CRIRA2019-1301845.001.jpg
case_images: fig1
case_images: A bedside chest tube insertion was undertaken, with subsequent CT thorax demonstrating no change in the size of the large left complex collection (Figure 1).