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A single parenchymal cavity with an air-fluid level typifies an anaerobic lung abscess.
Most often, these lesions are located in the dependent, aspiration-prone lung segments (superior segment of the right lower lobe and left lower lobe and posterior segments of the upper lobes). This patient also has a small left empyema.
