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Is re-expansion pulmonary edema associated with smooth, irregular or nodular interstitial thickening?
Smooth
Subsequent portable AP chest radiograph following evacuation shows a small-bore chest tube in the right hemithorax with a tiny residual apical pneumothorax. Notably, though the right lung is almost completely re-expanded there are patchy alveolar opacities, particularly in the upper and lower right lung fields.