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1/27/2012
WHAT IS THE DIAGNOSIS?
This X-ray is from a young man with a large pleural effusion which was drained with a chest tube. Most of the fluid is gone but the lung is still unexpanded and the mediastinum is shifted to the right due to volume loss. He has a trapped lung.