Archives of the AFIP -- RadioGraphics

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Figure 19: Pleural effusion. Panel A Contrast-enhanced CT scan (mediastinal window) of a 73-year-old man with MPM shows that the right hemithorax is completely filled with a massive pleural effusion, shifting the mediastinum to the left. No definite pleural masses can be seen. Calcified pleural plaques garrows), indicating prior asbestos exposure, are seen posteriorly in both hemithoraces. Panel B Contrast-enhanced CT scan (mediastinal window) of another patient with MPM shows a massive, loculated left pleural effusion. The left lung is completely collapsed, the mediastinum shifted to the right, and fat planes in the mediastinum obscured, which suggests mediastinal invasion. An enhancing, nodular pleural rind (black arrow) is seen in the left hemithorax, and calcified pleural plaques (white arrow) are in the right hemithorax.

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