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A 78-year-old man presented with cough, sputum, fever (max 39°C) and neutrophilic leucocytosis (WBC 11.000/mmc). Five months earlier, he had the same symptoms and a CT scan had shown a triangular, wedge-shaped opacity of the middle lobe. No air bronchogram was present (figure 1A). At that time, he was treated with a 10-days course of a cephalosporin, with improvement of …
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Contributors The corresponding author conceived the work, was in charge of the clinical diagnosis and treatment and edited the manuscript. All authors have contributed towards revising the manuscript for important intellectual content and participated in editing the pictures, checking syntax and upgrading the paper to its current form.
Competing interests None declared.
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