Broncholithiasis with Post-obstructive Pneumonia and Empyema

Abstract

A 53-year-old woman presented to an Emergency Department in Iraq complaining of severe right-sided pleuritic chest pain for 24 h. She also reported one episode of hemoptysis, shortness of breath, and subjective fevers. She was seen in the clinic earlier the same day and diagnosed with right middle lobe pneumonia on plain chest radiography (Figure 1). She denied any risk factors for pulmonary embolism. Her past medical and surgical history was unremarkable.