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Woman with cough and chest pain
  1. Chun-Jen Wu,
  2. Jen-Tang Sun,
  3. Chih-Jung Chang
  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City 220, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Chih-Jung Chang, Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City 220, Taiwan; chihjung0729{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2022-212463

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    Clinical Introduction

    An otherwise healthy 50-year-old woman presented to the ED with cough and intermittent low-grade fever for a couple of days. She also had mid-chest and upper back discomfort while coughing. She had received acupuncture a few weeks prior to this episode. On arrival, her vital signs were stable and physical examinations were unremarkable. Laboratory results showed leucocytosis (white cell: 19.97x10∧9/L cells/μL) with a leftward shift (neutrophils: 81%). Chest radiography was obtained (figure 1) and gave the clue to advanced imaging.

    Figure 1

    Posteroanterior chest radiography gives a clue to further investigation.

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors C-JW acquired the clinical data, drafted the manuscript and maintained contact and consent with the patient. J-TS served as the scientific advisor and did revision of the manuscript. C-JC was responsible for editing the article and gave final approval to the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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