Abstract
Patients with pleural effusion are mostly presenting with shortness of
breath and pleuritic chest pain.
This report describes a case of PE
who presented with left shoulder pain and was found to have rapidly
accumulating massive effusion within 24 hours of presentation.
Thoracocentesis was performed a showed an exudative picture.
Keywords: massive pleural effusion; thoracocentesis;
exudative effusion; complicated parapneumonic effusion