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The clinical case we present here is that of a young woman with a free and non-loculated parapneumonic infectious pleural effusion caused by diplococcus pneumoniae.
The aim is to underline the great importance of performing an early thoracentesis; in fact, this enabled us to make a diagnosis of pleural empyema and to promptly start intrapleural therapy with fibrinolytic therapy, obtaining the complete resolution of the clinical and radiological picture.
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Casalini, A.G. (2023). First Clinical Case of Infectious Pleural Effusion . In: Casalini, A.G. (eds) Practical Manual of Pleural Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20312-1_8
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