Calcified Cholesterol-Containing Pleural Effusion

Abstract

A 41-year-old white man was hospitalized in 1963 for evaluation of a loculated right pleural effusion (Fig 1). In 1953, thoracentesis had been performed twice on the right following abnormal findings on chest film; this revealed yellow fluid. He had remained well until three weeks prior to this admission when he experienced anorexia and malaise.