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Radiological appearance of empyema

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Chest radiography in patients with empyema has the following characteristics:

  • empyemata are generally posterior and lateral, above the diaphragm
  • initially the radiographic appearance is identical to that of pleural effusion
  • later the fluid may become loculated

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