Meeting
Abstract Number: 489
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 77 year old female who had a diagnosed primary gastric adenocarcinoma at another hospital presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath. A chest x-ray was done which showed a large left-sided pleural effusion (Figure 1). An ultrasoundguided thoracentesis was done and the pleura was positive for metastatic adenocarcinoma, however the […]