Test yourself question: pain in the right hemithorax

Abstract

Objective: A 32-year-old woman presented with pain in the posterior right hemithorax for 3 months. The patient denied trauma. On physical examination, the patient reported pain with local compression. On auscultation, there was a reduction of the normal vesicular pulmonary sound in the upper third of the right hemithorax. Blood count test and C-reactive protein were normal. Chest computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging were performed to investigate the symptoms (Figs. 1 and 2). A biopsy confirmed the final diagnosis (Fig. 3).