Presentation of CaseA 64-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of an infiltrate in the upper lobe of the right lung.There was a long history of wheezing, for which he took no medications, and of repeated respiratory tract infections. An abnormality in the right lung dated back at least 10 years, when an x-ray film of the chest showed patchy opacities and possible bronchiectasis in the posterior segment of the right upper lobe. Three years later another x-ray film of the chest (Fig. 1) again revealed disease in the posterior segment of the right upper lobe; consolidation . . .
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