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Chest pain

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  • chest X-ray a looking for a lobar infiltrate c

Why?

A lobar infiltrate makes pneumococcal pneumonia more likely c

 

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , N   Shenker , RS   Phillips