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