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Case Reports
. 2020 Dec 1;113(12):888-889.
doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcaa276.

Positive pleural fluid RT-PCR for virus detection in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia

M I Malik  1 , N Fox  2 , A Chopra  3 , H Y Hughes  4 , R Washburn  4 , J T Huggins  5
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Case Reports

Positive pleural fluid RT-PCR for virus detection in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia

M I Malik et al. QJM. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
An axial image of a contrasted chest computed tomography (CT) at the level of the bifurcation of the main pulmonary artery and at the level of the hilum. The chest CT demonstrates a large, left-sided, non-complex pleural effusion. There are pathologically enlarged lymph nodes, defined by >1 cm in short axis, located in the sub-carinal and hilar regions.
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