Presentation
Fever and cough for 1 week.
Patient Data
Age: 7 years
Gender: Male
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Left costo-phrenic region ground glass haziness along chest wall.
From the case:
Empyema
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Anechoic central areas with well defined walls suggesting split pleura sign.
Two distinct layers of thickend pleural seen with central avascular hypoechoic areas. High vascularity is seen in thickened pleura.
Air in lung shows reverberation artifact deep to the lesion.
Case Discussion
Findings favor small developing empyma.