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Partial atelectasis of the left lower lobe mimicking pneumonia. a In this 64-year-old stroke patient with arterial hypertension, an alveolar opacity in the medial aspects of the left lower lobe was misdiagnosed as pneumonia. b At CT, this density was identified as partial atelectasis of the left lower lobe
