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ArticleChest2025

A 52-Year-Old Woman With Shortness of Breath and Left Lower Back Pain.

Faraz Badar, Harith Al-Ataby, Mohammed Al-Azzawi, Mohamed Omballi

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Article in Chest, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Faraz BadarDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. Electronic address: faraz.badar3@gmail.com.
Harith Al-AtabyDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
Mohammed Al-AzzawiDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
Mohamed OmballiDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

case presentationA 52-year-old woman presented to the clinic with progressively worsening shortness of breath associated with intermittent pleuritic left lower back pain for the past 6 months. The patient denied any cough, hemoptysis, fever, chills, or weight loss. She had a history of smoking cigarettes for more than 10 years but quit almost 20 years ago. An outpatient chest radiograph was obtained, and it suggested consolidation of the left lower lobe. The patient was treated empirically with amoxicillin-clavulanate for 2 weeks without improvement.

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DyspneaLow Back PainDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHumansMiddle AgedTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID40074500
PMCPMC11937227

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