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A 57-year-old man hospitalized for pleural carcinomatosis with massive right-sided effusion and an opaque hemithorax, as shown on a chest X-ray obtained at admission (A). Three liters of fluid were drained. A follow-up chest X-ray taken two hours later (B), showing extensive pulmonary edema on the same side, as was also seen on a computer tomography scan of the chest (C). The radiological signs resolved within five days.
