A liver-lung connection.
A 35-year-old man presented with cough, expectoration of green sputum, and right-sided pleuritic chest pain. Symptoms had begun the previous day and he had vomited the night before. The patient also complained of chronic fatigue, a 12-lb. weight loss, insomnia, right-sided back pain, and lower extremity myalgias. He denied having had fever, chills, diaphoresis, dyspnea, diarrhea, dysuria, abdominal pain, skin lesions, or jaundice.
Parker
J
J
Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, USA.
Brown
M A
MA
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