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Palla's sign,1 dilated right descending pulmonary artery >16 mm, and the Westermark's sign,2 focal oligaemia, are useful chest x-ray signs of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) even though their sensitivity and specificity are less. Here, we present a case in which PTE was suspected based on these chest x-ray signs.
A 35-year-old male with fever, right thigh pain, breathlessness and cough was considered to have community-acquired pneumonia, and received intravenous antibiotics for 2 days …
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Contributors All authors contributed equally.
Funding None.
Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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