A 35-Year-Old Woman With Acute Pleuritic Chest Pain and an Unusual Mediastinal Opacity.

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Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Pierre Bénite, France; Service de Pneumologie Aigue Spécialisée et Cancérologie Thoracique, centre hospitalier Lyon Sud, Hospices civils de Lyon, Pierre Bénite, France. Electronic address:

Published: January 2019

A 35-year-old woman came to the ED following 2 days of chest pain. She was a nonsmoker, taking no medications, and not using a contraceptive pill. The patient had no history of recent travel but had given birth (full-term pregnancy) 4 months earlier. She described nonradiating, left-sided pleuritic chest pain with no associated dyspnea, cough, sputum, or sweating.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2018.07.036DOI Listing

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